THE TRANSLATION OF WORDPLAY IN LEWIS CARROLL’S THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE INTO BAHASA INDONESIA BY DJOKOLELONO

Abstract

This research aims to: 1) describe the types of wordplay found in the source text, 2) analyze the techniques to translate them, and 3) identify the degree of equivalence of the translations. This research employed the descriptive qualitative methodology. The data sources of this research were a novel entitled Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There written by Lewis Carroll as the source text and its Bahasa Indonesia translation entitled Alice Through the Looking Glass translated by Djokolelono as the target text. The data were in the form of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences categorized as wordplay. In order to attain the trustworthiness, triangulation is needed to check and verify the collected data. The results of this research show that there are 76 wordplays found in the source text in which Morphological Wordplay is the most types appeared in the source text with the percentage of 23.68% because there are several ways to create this wordplay. WordplayàNon-wordplay is the most frequent used technique to translate the wordplay with the percentage of 44.74% since the translator rather omit the form of wordplay. Finally yet importantly, in the case of the degree of equivalence, 50% data are Partly Equivalent translation. This happens because the translator cannot maintain the form.  

Keywords: equivalence, translation, translation techniques, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, wordplay