scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE FILM “RIO” BASED ON NEWMARK’S MODEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Thi Ngan
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Observational Methods ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Free Open Source

The study evaluated the translation quality of the Vietnamese version of the film “Rio”, which was translated and dubbed in the project of MegaStar Media Ltd. Company, Vietnam in April 2011. To reach its aim, the study used four methods including analysis and comparison, which were based on Newmark’s model. In addition, statistical and observational methods were also applied to examine the synchronisation of each utterance and its translated version. The research instrument was “Aegisub”, a free open-source cross-platform subtitle editing program designed for timing and styling of subtitles. The researcher’s purpose was to see how well utterances in both versions of the flm are synchronised with each other. The research findings showed that in general, the film was well-translated in terms of structures, proper nouns, hierarchical pronouns, borrowed words and puns. Weaknesses of the translation were found in the title and several mistranslations. The study also revealed that the translated utterances were synchronised with the original ones quite well, especially in terms of duration.

scholarly journals Flex Projector–Interactive Software for Designing World Map Projections

2008 ◽  
pp. 12-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Jenny ◽  
Tom Patterson ◽  
Lorenz Hurni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Interactive Software ◽  
Map Projections ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Uniform Spacing ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Free Open Source ◽  
Mathematical Expertise

Flex Projector is a free, open-source, and cross-platform software application that allows cartographers to interactively design custom projections for small-scale world maps. It specializes in cylindrical, and pseudocylindrical projections, as well as polyconical projections with curved parallels. Giving meridians non-uniform spacing is an option for all classes of projections. The interface of Flex Projector enables cartographers to shape the projection graticule, and provides visual and numerical feedback to judge its distortion properties. The intended users of Flex Projector are those without specialized mathematical expertise, including practicing mapmakers and cartography students. The pages that follow discuss why the authors developed Flex Projector, give an overview of its features, and introduce two new map projections created by the authors with this new software: the A4 and the Natural Earth projection.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TEKNIK PENERJEMAHAN MAJAS IRONI DAN SARKASME DALAM NOVEL THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES SERTA DAMPAKNYA TERHADAP KUALITAS TERJEMAHAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Irene Dinari ◽  
Mangatur Nababan ◽  
Djatmika Djatmika
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Average Score ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact

<p><strong>Background</strong>: This research is conducted by analyzing figurative language as irony and sarcasm in the novel entitled The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TROSH) and its translation in <em>Bahasa</em> Indonesia. The aims of this research are to (1) identify such types of figurative language as irony and sarcasm in the novel TROSH<em> </em>and its translation in <em>Bahasa Indonesia</em>, (2) identify translation techniques used when translating the irony and sarcasm, (3) find out the translation shifts appearing as effects of the application of the translation techniques, and (4) find out the effects of the translation shifts of irony and sarcasm on translation quality considering accuracy, acceptability, and readability.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Method</strong>: The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. The source of data is a novel entitled The Return of Sherlock Holmes and its translation. The result of questionnaires from the raters that asses the translations quality also belong to the source of data in this study. The data in this study are phrase, clause, or sentence that contain irony or sarcasm in the novel The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Beside that, the information about the quality of the translation from the raters and informants is also belonged to the data. The technique in conducting the data is done by analysing the document and the questionnaires.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Result</strong>: The research findings reveal that (1) 67 data of irony and sarcasm are found in the novel The Return of Sherlock Holmes and are divided into 6 subcategories consisting of ironical understatement, non-ironical falsehood, ironical interjections, illocutionary sarcasm, propositional sarcasm, and lexical sarcasm, (2) Several translation techniques employed are established equivalence, modulation, amplification, variation, transposition, linguistic compression, borrowing, reduction, linguistic amplification, compensation, adaptation, and particularization, while some others are couplets, triplets, and quadruplets, (3) the application of the aforementioned translation techniques leads to three possibilities such as the absence of translation shifts of irony and sarcasm, translation shifts to another figurative language, and translation shifts to nonfigurative language, (4) the translation shifts give moderate positive effects on the translation quality of irony and sarcasm found in the novel The Return of Sherlock Holmes with average score of 2.64.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Conclustion</strong>: <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The result of this study shows that established equivalence is often used in translating irony and sarcasm. The application of this technique gives a good quality in the translation of irony and sarcasm because that technique can be applied based on the context of situations in the target texts. Meanwhile, established equivalence may give a poor result of the translation quality if it is combined with another technique, for examples: reduction, transposition, and modulation. The impact of the quality is caused by the translation shifting of irony and sarcasm into another figurative language or denotative form. From the analysis of this study, it can be cncluded that the translation shifting of figurative language is one of the important thing in figurative language’s translation and translation quality assessment.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: irony and sarcasm, translation techniques, shift, translation quality</p>

scholarly journals Inferring Shallow-Transfer Machine Translation Rules from Small Parallel Corpora

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 605-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Sánchez-Martínez ◽  
M. L. Forcada
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Bilingual Dictionary ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Statistical Mt ◽  
Transfer Rules ◽  
Word Translation ◽  
And Control ◽  
Free Open Source

This paper describes a method for the automatic inference of structural transfer rules to be used in a shallow-transfer machine translation (MT) system from small parallel corpora. The structural transfer rules are based on alignment templates, like those used in statistical MT. Alignment templates are extracted from sentence-aligned parallel corpora and extended with a set of restrictions which are derived from the bilingual dictionary of the MT system and control their application as transfer rules. The experiments conducted using three different language pairs in the free/open-source MT platform Apertium show that translation quality is improved as compared to word-for-word translation (when no transfer rules are used), and that the resulting translation quality is close to that obtained using hand-coded transfer rules. The method we present is entirely unsupervised and benefits from information in the rest of modules of the MT system in which the inferred rules are applied.

scholarly journals TECHNIQUES AND QUALITY OF 'CIVIL WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?' COMIC TRANSLATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Rifqi Hanif Barezzi ◽  
MR Nababan ◽  
Riyadi Santosa
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Holistic Research ◽  
The Impact

The objectives of this study were to know the translation techniques and the assessment translation quality of Marvel comic series entitled Civil War: Whose Side Are You? (Part 1 and 2) in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. This was a descriptive qualitative research and focusing on a single case as well as holistic research involving documents, i.e: the original and the translation books as the objective data and informants who gave assesment on the quality of the translation. The techniques of collecting data were document analysis, questionnaire distribution, and focus grup discussion. Total sampling was applied in this research. The research findings show that there were 12 types of translation techniques applied by the translator, namely established equivalent, borrowing, variation, modulation, explication, discursive creation, literal translation, reduction, transposition, addition, adaptation, and implication. The impact of the application of those techniques toward the translation quality was good enough. The scores indicate that the translation has good quality in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. It also shows that background of the translators influenced the techniques chosen.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Translation Techniques of Irony and Sarcasm in Novel Entitled The Sign Of The Four

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Sukmaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Translation Technique ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Translation Accuracy ◽  
The Impact

This research was aimed to identify the translation techniques used in translating the irony and sarcasm utterances in novel entitled The Sign of the Four and to find out the translation quality appearing as the effects of those translation technique applications. This research was an qualitative research. Data of this research were utterances or sentences in the novel The Sign of The Four which involves two different languages both the SL (English) and the TL (Indonesian). This research focused on product since the research questions were formulated to be answered based on the written texts which contain ironic and sarcasm utterances. Purposive sampling technique was choosen in choosing the data. The object of this research were ironic and sarcasm utterances, type of translation technique, and translation quality which cover accuracy, acceptability, and readibility of translated text English to Indonesia of novel The Sign of  The Four. The research findings reveal that the type of sarcasm found in The Sign of The Four novel are illocutionary sarcasm and proportional sarcasm. The sarcasm marker of iilocutionary sarcasm is the manner violation. While proportional sarcasm is characterized by self contradiction. When considering the context of the utterance, the sarcastic utterances are expressed by the actor, in order to insult his partner. The irony found in the novel is the ironical interjection characterized by the unusual collocation. Translation used in translating the ironic and sarcasm utterances in this novel are; reduction, amplification (addition), compensation, transposition, adaptation, discursive creation, and calque. The impact of the use of translation techniques is on the quality of the translated text. Acceptance of the translation is worth 3 (acceptable). Translation accuracy varies from 1 to 3 (from accurate to inaccurate).

scholarly journals KAJIAN TERJEMAHAN KALIMAT YANG MEREPRESENTASIKAN TINDAK TUTUR ASERTIF MENJAWAB DALAM DUA VERSI TERJEMAHAN NOVEL PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paramita Widya Hapsari ◽  
Nababan M.R. ◽  
Djatmika Djatmika
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Variation Techniques

<p>This research is conducted by analyzing answering speech acts in Pride and Prejudice (PAP) novel and its two translation versions, Shira Media and Qanita Publisher. The aims of this research are to describe: (1) observing or non-observing the maxim, (2) the translation techniques used for translating answering speech acts in PAP novel and its two translation versions, (3) the translation quality of answering speech acts in PAP novel and its two translation versions, (4) the impacts of translation techniques toward the quality of answering speech acts in PAP novel.</p><p>This is a descriptive-qualitative research. The source of data are documents, PAP novel; and informants who assessed the quality of the translations. The data are answering speech acts in PAP novel and the information about translation quality given by the informants. The techniques of data collection are content analysis, questionaire, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD).</p><p><strong>Result</strong>: It is found out that there are observing and non-observing the maxim used in answering speech acts in PAP novel and its two translation versions. In Shira Media Publisher, the translation techniques used are: established equivalence, variation, borrowing, amplification (explicitation), amplification (addition), reduction, modulation, adaptation, transposition, literal, discursive creation, particularization, and generalization. Established equivalence and variation techniques commonly appear in observing and non-observing maxim quantity. These techniques also produce accurate and acceptable translations. Meanwhile, there are 11 translation techniques used in Qanita Publisher are: established equivalence, variation, borrowing, amplification (explicitation), amplification (addition), modulation, reduction, discursive creation, adaptation, transposition, and particularization. Same as the novel Shira Media Publisher, established equivalence and variation techniques also commonly appear in observing and non-observing maxim.</p><p>The research findings in this research show that established equivalence technique has positive impact to translation quality. Meanwhile, literal and discursive creation are technique that produce less accurate and less acceptable translation. However, the findings also show the majority of translation techniques used are able to create accurate and acceptable translations.</p>Keywords: <em>cooperative principles, translation techniques, translation quality.</em>

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