Exploring the Translation of Character Development on Children Story (An Appraisal Study)

Abstract

Important element in narrative text is characterization. This element should exist in every story in order to draw readers into their imagination and fantasy, including in the children story which the target is youngers. The development of character depiction in the translation text should be the same as source text. Translator should pay attention in transfering the meaning and choosing diction. This study investigates character development and the translation of children story in the platform Storyweaver using appraisal system. This research is descriptive qualitative research in linguistics and translation. This research aims to identify protagonist and antagonist character from every stages using attitude system, to investigate translation technique, shift, and quality of the children story, and to elaborate the character development and the translation in every stages of children story in the platform Storyweaver. It uses five kind level 4 narrative stories. The analysis of attitude uses appraisal system by Martin & White (2005), translation technique by Molina & Albir (2002), and Translation Quality by Nababan, et al (2012). The result of this research shows that the three subsystems attitude (affect, judgement, appreciation) is used to describe and depict the protagonist and antagonist character. Even though, there are some characters which is not depicted in every stages, the image of the characters are still conveyed. Furthermore, ten translation technique are found, that are established equivalent, explicitation, discursive creation, paraphrase, transposition, modulation, implicitation, deletion, reduction and addition. The shifts are found in established equivalent, discursive creation, modulation, deletion and implicitation. Due to this shift, some images of the character are changed. Therefore, the characters are developed well in each story stages (orientation, complication, evaluation, resolution).