A Study of Translation Shift of English Adjectuve Clauses into Indonesian in The Very Best of Donald Duck Comics

The objective of this study is to find out the kinds of translation shift of
English adjective clause into Indonesian in The Very Best of Donald Duck comics.
Besides, this study aims to figure out what translation methods that are used in
translating English adjective clause into Indonesian through translation shift that
occurs in The Very Best of Donald Duck comics. The theory of translation shift
used in this study based on theory of J.C. Catford (1965), in which this study is
conducted the kinds of translation shift analysis, The Very Best of Donald Duck
comics.
The methodology used in this study is qualitative descriptive method. The
study is accomplished by the writer by reading and comparing the English and
Indonesian adjective clause. Then the writer compared the data where translation
shifts from Source Language (SL) into Target Language (TL) occurred. The data
are classified according to each kinds of translation shift and the translation
methods that used in translating English adjective clause into Indonesian through
translation shift that occurs after the classification.
The kinds of translation shift found in The Very Best of Donald Duck
comics are level shift and category shift. Where in the level shift includes 2 data,
while in the category shift is divided into four types: structural shift (5 data), class
shift (1 data), unit/rank shift (10 data), and intra–system shift (2 data). So, the total
data that have been collected in this study are 20 data.
The writer also finds out the translation methods that used in translating
English adjective clause into Indonesian through translation shift that occurs in
The Very Best of Donald Duck comics in this study. Moreover, the writer only
found several methods that used in this study, those are: faithful translation
includes 13 data, literal translation that occur 3 data, semantic translation and
communicative translation that have same point in 2 data in each method.
Whereas, the writer not found word–of–word translation, adaptation, free
translation and idiomatic translation that used in translating English adjective
clause into Indonesian through translation shift that occurs in this study. This
analysis is based on the theory of P. Newmark (1988), that there are eight methods
of translation that are used by translator in translating adjective clause through
translation shift that occurs.