An Error Analysis of Indonesian to English Translation on Public Place Signboard in Bengkalis

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10.2991/assehr.k.210424.065How to use a DOI?

Keywords

translation, signboard, public place

Abstract

This research aimed at finding out the error translation of words, phrases, or sentence written on Public places from Indonesian as source text into English as the target text and to map the types of text translation strategy on public places Sign in Bengkalis. This descriptive research used data sources in the form of documents and persons; The written text on public places were documented in the form of photos and Interview were applied as the methods to collect the data of public place sign source text. As a result, there are 64 signboards showing names of place and directions which have been analysed by the types of errors on each translation. Most of the translation were categorized as word for word translation strategy. The highest number of Errors was at Grammar-lexical confusion.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aswandi
AU  - Muhammad Indra Gunawan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/26
TI  - An Error Analysis of Indonesian to English Translation on Public Place Signboard in Bengkalis
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Social Science (ICAST-SS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 338
EP  - 341
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210424.065
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210424.065
ID  - 2021
ER  -