Nowadays, some people prefer the novel rather than any
consolation to get something educating and amusing. Moreover, people
have many choices to determine what kind of novel to read since there are
so many novels sold in Indonesia. However, they are dominated by foreign
authors and mostly written in English. Power-Crazy Ms Wiz is one of the
novels that comes from abroad. It is one of children novels written by
Terence Blacker in English. Since only a few Indonesians master English,
Novia stephanie translates Power-Crazy Ms Wiz into Indonesian.
A good translator is not enough mastering the grammatical factors.
In translating, the translator faces some problems because translation
activities do not only deal with transferring words from the source
language into the target language, but also deal with the most important
thing, e.g., transfering the message, meaning, and culture from the source
language into the target language. Therefore, a translator also should
master the cultural aspect of the source language and the target language
since each country has their own cultural background. Moreover, a
translator should consider the society of the speakers whether they have
different social status or not. One of the problems which may arise in translating a novel is
translating English personal pronouns as one of the personal references.
According to Halliday and Hasan (1975:43), the category personals
includes the three classes of personal pronouns, possessive determiners,
and possessive pronouns. In the novel entitled Power-Crazy Ms Wiz, there
are some terms of address and their different translation. Second person
address can be be plural or singular and function as subject, object or
vocative. Vocative is a word or phrase used to address a reader or listener
directly, usually in the form of a personal name, title, or term of
endearment, for example “ Peter, please pass the pepper”.
(http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/vocativeterm.htm)
English personal pronouns for addressing is “you”. “You” can be
translated into Indonesian as kamu, engkau, kau, anda, saudara dan
kalian. In reality, people use another form of second person address, for
instance words for kinship relationship such as Mother, Father, Son, etc.
Besides, there are words to show a person’s rank or occupation such as
Prime Minister, Lady, Sir, etc.
English address terms can be translated in several forms in
Indonesian since there are many kinds of words to address someone such
as pronouns (engkau, kamu, anda, kalian), title (dokter, Menteri,
Profesor), names (Andi, Dika, Ika), kinship (ayah, ibu, kakak, adik), etc.
Moreover, Indonesian considers the age, social status, sex, and intimacy in
every situation. The problem of translating address terms can be solved if the
translator applies some techniques in order to produce quality translation.
Larson (1984: 485) states that a translator is concerned that the result of
his work be a good quality translation. A translation which does not
effectively communicate the message of the source text is of limited value.
To make things clear, the researcher gives some examples of second
person address translation in the children novel entitled Power-Crazy Ms
Wiz.
Example 1:
4. Podge meets Ms Wiz in the fair.
Podge :
SL: Ms Wiz!, what are you doing here?
TL: Ms Wiz!, Apa yang anda lakukan di sini?
From the example above, it can be seen that the type of translation
variation of address terms used in the text is in the form of pronoun. The
translator translates the pronoun “you” lexically to find the appropriate
receptor language equivalences. The translator decides to translate “you”
into “Anda” because the addressor is younger than addressee.
Example 2:
78. Prime Minister said to Marjorie that he wants to speak to the nation
with Ms Wiz.
Marjorie:
SL : B-but, sir.
TL : T-tapi, sir.
In the second example, the type of translation variation of address
terms used is in the form of title. In translating the address terms “sir”, the translator applies pure borrowing as the technique. The translation is
accurate but it sounds unnatural. It will be better if the translator translates
the word “sir” into “Pak” or “Tuan”. The translation using the word “Pak”
or “Tuan” will produce accurate and acceptable translation.
Example 3:
69. The Prime Minister said that he is not going to make a speech.
People:
SL : Run out of words, have you?
TL : Kehabisan kata-kata, ya,
In the example above, the translator applies omission technique.
The message of the source language can be conveyed accurately to the
target language. Without translating the word “you”, the translation still
sounds natural. However, the text also can be translated into “Anda
kehabisan kata-kata ya,”.
Example 4:
120. This dialogue happens when Podge goes home. He meets his parents.
Podge:
SL: You mean about the books and the biscuits and St Barbanas?
TL: Maksud Ayah tentang buku dan biskuit dan St Barbanas?
Example above shows that the translation technique applied by the
translation is adaptation. As we seen that the source language uses the type
of address term in the form of pronoun “You”. However, the translator
translates into the kinship term “Ayah”. It is done since the participants of
this dialogue are Podge as a son and her father, Mr. Harris. They have
different age and social status. The application of adaptation technique
does not ruin the message. The message is conveyed accurately. Moreover, adaptation makes the translation natural since the translation is
appropriate with the target language culture
Based on the phenomena, the researcher tries to investigate
translation techniques used by the translator and the translation quality of
address terms in the novel entitled Power Crazy Ms Wiz
