Translation of '…(be)gitu…,' '…gitu kan' and '…gitu lah' in podcast transcript: The students' method and procedure selections

Engliana Engliana, Ria Saraswati

Abstract


Treating and translating sentence-final particles in Indonesian informal conversational style settings often becomes an interesting debate in the Indonesian research context. The present study aims to expose the students’ translation methods and procedures of the Indonesian discourse particles "lah" and "kan," together with their cooccurrences "gitu' and "begitu," in an informal conversation context. The skopos framework helps focus on the interactional dynamics and pragmatic aspects of the translation. A qualitative methodology with a text analysis approach to the translation and its source text is used to acquire the data and conduct the analysis. The Indonesian discourse particles "lah" and "kan" with their cooccurrences with '(be-)gitu' and their translation from the students' recorded podcast interview transcript are the corpus data. A follow-up interview with the student participants is considered secondary data. Findings show that the "lah" and "kan" particles with their cooccurrence "be-gitu" are neglected in performing translation practice for spoken language. The reasons often derive from the ignorance of the existence of particles, which functioned as the emphasis and implicit meaning conveyed by the speaker. The translation analysis of this research offers dynamics and renewal perspectives on understanding how students perceive the particles and re-formulate them into a foreign language.


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Method; particles; podcast translation; pragmatic markers; spoken language

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