Class Shift of Verbs and Readability in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200804.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

class shift, verbs, readability, Harry Potter, translation

Abstract

This research is aimed to analyze the class shift of verbs and readability in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and its Indonesian version Harry Potter dan Pangeran Berdarah Campuran. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data were sentences containing verbs in J.K Rowling’s novel entitled Harry Potter and a Half Blood Prince and its Indonesian translation. After being collected in the data sheet, the data were analyzed by using Catford’s theory of shift. The first finding displays that there are five class shifts of verbs occurring in the novel. They are verbs translated into (1) noun (84 or 14.0%), (2) adjective (20 or 3.3%), (3) adverb (116 or 19.4%), (4) pronoun (19 or 3.2 %), and (5) particle (3 or 0.5 %). In terms of readability, the second finding shows that there are three levels of translation readability: (1) high readability, (2) middle readability, and (3) low readability.

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© 2020, 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  - Siti Aisyah
AU  - Atiqa Sabardila
AU  - Dwi Haryanti
AU  - Ainurvely Gehandiastie Maudy
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/05
TI  - Class Shift of Verbs and Readability in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, and Arts Education (ICLLAE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 232
EP  - 236
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200804.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200804.045
ID  - Aisyah2020
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