CREATIVE PATH ON RETRANSLATING THE GUIDE BOOK OF KRATON SURAKARTA HADININGRAT  

Oleh:

Asmarani, Rahmanti ; Nugroho, Raden Arief

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: TransCon 2011: Cultures Merging: Tackling the Linguistic (Un)translatability, Jakarta: Unika Atma Jaya, June 15, 2011, page 175-182.
Topik: creative path; cultural concept; Javanese cultural heritage; historical background; untranslatable cultural words
Fulltext: (175-182) Rahmanti Asmarani.pdf (273.7KB)

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Translation has grown up rapidly. It is a kind of process of transferring writer’s idea to target readers. In addition, translation is a challenging activity which produces some unique and artistic motions (since it contains the cultural concept, either abstract or tangible concept). The guide book of Kraton Surakarta Hadiningrat (The palace of Surakarta Hadiningrat) assists tourist guides to provide information about Kraton’s activity and its historical background. Kraton Surakarta, as one of exotic buildings in Central Java, is the island's cultural, geographic, and historic heartland which depicts enormous symbols of local genius that can get distorted. In performing the process of retranslating the guide book of Kraton Surakarta Hadiningrat, a creative path of translation appears to deal with the problems of cultural untranslatability. In addition, the creative path of translation is a technique of retranslating the English guide book of Kraton Surakarta Hadiningrat (which has some untranslatable cultural words) through some engaging activities; as applied through: back translation, site observation, snap shooting, on the site interview, and focus group discussion. Site observation, snap shooting, and site interview are conducted to get the best equivalence of tangible cultural concept. Whilst, focus group discussion is used as the member checking addressed for non-native English speaking students. Thus, by using the creative path of translation, translation activity is not only challenging but it can be an interesting task for students.

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