Abstract

The main objective of this research is to find out the translation technique mostly used in translating the same words and phrases of Android, iOS and Windows mobile phones’ manual books. Its data were obtained through collecting the printed manual books and unprinted manual books from internet. The data were analyzed by using theory of translation technique by Molina & Albir (2002). The final results of the research indicate the following. First, there are 100 similar words and phrases were found among translation of 3 OS mobile phones’ manual books. Second, there are 9 translation techniques used; adaptation, amplification, borrowing, calque, establish equivalent, discursive creation, generalization, and particularization. In addition, the translation technique mostly used in translation of Android, iOS And Windows mobile phones’ manual books is Calque. Key words: Translation, Similar Words, Phrases & Sentences, Mobile Phones’ Manual Book

Highlights

  • In this era of globalization, translation has an important role, since it helps people to get information from many different languages

  • The translation of procedure text in manual books is the focus of this project because manual book is a text, which has the aim to guide the readers in using an object correctly and it is always written in procedure text

  • The objectives of the research are: 1. To find out the translation results of similar words and phrases used in source language among Android, iOS and Windows mobile phones’ manual books 2

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Introduction

In this era of globalization, translation has an important role, since it helps people to get information from many different languages. If translation cannot transfer meaning from source language to target language correctly or meaning distortion, it will be a bad translation This project analyzes translation for identifying whether the translation of manual books is good or not. People usually read and try to understand the manual book first before using the new object so that they know the steps for using it correctly. It means that manual book is an important part of every product, to make people easy in using the product and know what to do if there is a damaged

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