Procedures of Translating Culture-Specific Item in the Book “The International Jew The World’s Foremost Problem”

Riza Aries Setyawan

doi:10.7176/jlll/52-05

Abstract

This article discussed the Culture-Specific Item (CSI) in Henry Ford’s The International Jew The World’s Foremost Problem and its translation in Indonesian. The CSI is identified and extracted into 80 data which classified based on Newmark (1988) and Baker (1992) classification of cultural terms. All data are put in pair with its translation and analyzed using Davies’s (2003) procedures, in order to reach the aim to determine the procedures of CSI translation. In the end of this paper, I found that the translator used preservation (66,25%), addition (7,5%), omission (6,25%), globalization (3,75%), localization (8,75%), transformation (5%), and creation (2,5%). Also, it showed that the preservation procedures is dominated. Keywords: Translation, Culture-Specific Item (CSI), procedures, Davies DOI : 10.7176/JLLL/52-05

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Translation becomes a popular term, but the person who deal with the subject is still limited nowadays
The aim of this paper is to determine the procedures of Culture-Specific Item (CSI) translation advocated by E
The analysis shown that all of Davies (2003) principles is used in CSI translation in Ford’s The International Jew The World’s Foremost Problem, and the dominated procedure is preservation

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Translation becomes a popular term, but the person who deal with the subject is still limited nowadays. Translation is needed in almost all aspect due to the massive coverage of globalization across the globe. I would happy to say that without translation, it is difficult to socialize. We cannot recognize and understand symbols, marks, and people in the other part of the world, it makes translation becomes vital. As stated by House (2018:140) “Globalization and translation are intertwined, and it is through translation that languages and cultures are brought together.”

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