COMPENSATION STRATEGY OF IDIOM TRANSLATION IN NOVEL

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COMPENSATION STRATEGY OF IDIOM TRANSLATION IN NOVEL “THE
RUNAWAY JURY (JURI PILIHAN)” BY JOHN GRISHAM

A Thesis
Submitted to Faculty of Adab and Humanities in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for The Strata One (S1) Degree

Dicky Hapita Putra
1111026000029

ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ADAB AND HUMANITIES
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH
JAKARTA
2016
ABSTRACT

Dicky Hapita Putra, Compensation Strategy of Idiom Translation in Novel “The
Runaway Jury (JuriPilihan)” by John Grisham. A Thesis: Adab and Humanities
Faculty, State Islamic University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, September
2016.
The aims of the thesis are to find compensation strategy in the novel The
Runaway Jury (JuriPilihan), then to classify them into four types based on the theory
of Sandor Harvey and Ian Higgins, such as, compensation in kind, compensation in
place, compensation in splitting and compensation in merging. The methodology in
this research, the writer uses qualitative descriptive method with reading the novel,
the original novel and the translation novel. Next, the writer notes the idiom in the
novel using of compensation strategy and analysis alteration occurring in translation
using compensation strategy then the writer classifying the data. The last,the writer
explains application compensation strategy of idiom translation in the novel. The
writer finds three of four types of compensation strategy in the novel: compensation
in kind, compensation in splitting and compensation in merging. The differences of
each type: the idioms using compensation in kind to translate relatively is not long in
the explanation, but enough to understand the meaning of the idiom. Next, the idioms
using compensation in splitting become longer and extended than SL and the idioms
using compensation in merging become shorter and simple, but the reader can catch
the point of the idiom.
Keywords: novel, compensation strategy, compensation in kind, compensation in
splitting, compensation in merging

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful. All praises
belong to Allah who has blessed the writer in completing this thesis. Peace and
salutation be upon the most honorable Prophet Muhammad SAW (peace be upon to
him), his families, his companies, and his followers.
The writer would like to express her sincere thanks to:
1. His beloved parents mama and papa, for their love, support, patience, and fully
finance during his study and the process of this thesis, his brother mas Dhany
who supports him in finance too and all his families who always support and
pray for his success.
2. His advisor M. Agus Suriadi, M. Hum, for his continuing guidance, patience, and
support during the writer conducts this thesis until finish.
3. The Dean of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Prof. Dr. Sukron Kamil, M.A.,
who gave him permission to conduct this study.
4. The Head of English Letters Department, Drs. A. Saefuddin, M.Pd., who gave
permission to conduct this thesis and for his advice in completing this study.
5. The Secretary of English Letters Department, Elve Oktafiyani, M. Hum, who
gave much information about departmental policies.
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6. All lecturers at English Letters Department, who have taught and educated him
during the study.
7. All English Letters Student Class of 2011 who have been mutually telling and
each other to finish the thesis.
8. His close friends of “Boim Wong”, Bangga, Zulmi, Reza, Fathan, Septian,
Engkus, Ichwan, Wahid, Fariz, Irvan, and Rohim who support each other to
finish the thesis
9. His friend from childhood Beny Setiadi who supports, helps and accompany him
to finish his thesis.
10. His Senior High School friends, Oriza, Ade, Ikhsan, Ian, Yudha and Zarkasih
who support and remind him to complete the thesis.
The writer realizes that there are many lacks and mistakes in this thesis.
Hopefully, this thesis can give many advantages for students or people who read it.

Jakarta, December 2016

The Writer

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................... i
APPROVEMENT ............................................................................................. ii
LEGALIZATION ............................................................................................ iii
DECLARATION ............................................................................................... iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................ v
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................. vii
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 1
A. Background of The Research ...................................... 1
B. Focus of The Research ................................................ 3
C. Question of The Research ........................................... 3
D. Significance of The Research ..................................... 3
E. Research of Methodology ........................................... 4
CHAPTER II. THEORITICAL DESCRIPTION.. .............................. 6
A. Previous Researches .................................................... 6
B. Conceptual Description ............................................... 8
1. Definition of Translation.................................... . 8
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2. Translation Strategies.........................................10
3. Compensation Strategy Deeper............................. 11
4. Idiom……………………………………………. 14 .
CHAPTERIII. THE ANALYSIS.............................................................. 17
A. Data Description ......................................................... 17
B. Data Analysis .............................................................. 17
CHAPTER IV. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ......................... 29
A. Conclusion .................................................................. 29
B. Suggestion ................................................................... 30
BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................. 31
APPENDIX ........................................................................................................ 33

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Research
In globalization era, many languages in the world that can be learned, such as,
English, Japanese, Arabic, etc. English that has become international language and
has used in any fields, for people is something important for them to learn it as a
capital to understand any development of the world. One of the aspects that need to
be learned in English is idiom. Idiom is a group of words which has a different
meaning from the meaning of its written context.1 In other words, idiom cannot be
translated literally. For the translator, he should have knowledge about idiom because
it is a challenge translating text or book using many idioms. Good translation can
only be done by a translator who has good qualification because the process of
translating involves two languages, they are source language and target language. The
process of translating also involves differences of culture to reveal ideas and
meanings from source language to target language. Hence, translating envelops the
whole finding meaning process of culture and convey a message to people in another
culture.2As the writer said above, English has been used in any fields, including

1Monika Gaule, Dr. Gurpreet Singh Josan, Machine Translation of Idioms from English to Hindi, Vol.
2, No.6, p. 50, (International Journal of Computational Engineering Research, October 2012)
2Frans Sayogie, Teori dan Praktik Penerjemahan (Tangerang Selatan: Transpustaka, 2014), pp. 3-4
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