The Methods Used in Translating Green’s Looking for Alaska into Mencari Alaska

Abstract

This research aims to find out the translation methods used in translating Green's (2005) novel Looking for Alaska into Mencari Alaska (Ruzini & Wulandari, 2014). The data were collected by reading, marking, and note-taking every sentence or word spoken by the main character in the source and target language. They were classified based on the methods used and calculated to find out what types of translation methods are frequently used in translating novel from English into Indonesian. The analysis was based on the eight types of translation methods by Newmark (1988). The result of the analysis showed that there are eight translation methods used to translate novel from English to Indonesian. They include word-for-word translation, literal translation, faithful translation, semantics translation, adaptation, idiomatic translation, free translation, and communicative translation. Free translation is the most frequently used method, while faithful translation method is the least.