Translation Techniques Used to Translate Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Novel

Abstract

This study attempts to investigate the techniques used to translate Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from English into Indonesian through analyzing the quality in the meaning and the appropriateness of the language by comparing the novel from the English version with the Indonesian version and consulting the meanings in several dictionaries. I used the synthesis of Baker's (1992) and Vinay & Dalbernet's (1958) frameworks to find out the translation techniques mostly used in the novel. From the data taken from Chapters 1 and 2 of the novel, I compared the source text with the target text. The analysis of the data shows that the translation technique used by the translator seems to be equivalence convey many idioms. Which are oftentimes tricky and require a translator's real expertise or art of translating.