M R Nababan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9050326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M R Nababan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M R |
| FAMILY NAME | Nababan |
| SIGNATURE | NABABAN M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sebelas Maret University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1913-6114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rub-a-dub
This study explores compensation strategies in dubbing nursery rhymes from English into Indonesian to maintain their rhyming, rhythmic, and mnemonic functions. Despite the growing prevalence of dubbed children's songs on platforms such as YouTube, there has been a limited scholarly attention to how rhyme is preserved in translation. Analyzing English nursery rhymes and their Indonesian dubbed versions from popular YouTube channels such as Cocomel…
Politeness Strategies in Interrogation Speech Acts
This study investigated the translation of illocutionary acts and politeness strategies within interrogation speech events. It uses Agatha Christie's novel A Murder Is Announced and its Indonesian translation as a case study. The research addresses a gap in existing literature, which primarily focuses on politeness in formulaic language and lacks a detailed analysis of more complex, context-driven speech acts like interrogations. Employing a qual…
The translation of Arab apology strategies in Naguib Mahfouz’s “Palace Walk” into English
Translation of Expressive Speech Acts by Protagonist and Antagonist Characters in the Witcher Series
This study examines the translation of expressive speech acts in the Netflix series The Witcher, focusing on the protagonist Geralt of Rivia and the antagonist Cahir Mawr Dyffryn. Expressive speech acts—such as apology, gratitude, condolence, lament, congratulation, protest, and praise—play a crucial role in conveying emotions and shaping character identity. A total of 158 utterances were analyzed from English–Indonesian subtitle pairs using qual…
A Translation Analysis of Attitude in the Motivational Book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This research aims to analyze the types of attitudes as an appraisal system, identify the techniques used in translating them from English to Indonesian, identify shifts in translating this system, and assess the impact of translation techniques on quality. It belongs to descriptive-qualitative research with an embedded case study design. In addition, the current study uses a purposive sampling technique to select its data sources. Moreover, it a…
An Investigation Into the Transposition Types and Effects Found in the Indonesian Translation of the Online Article “The World Heritage Sites - Unesco”
Translated content has become increasingly common on web-based news media in the era of greater internet viewership, and these translated materials usually go through many transpositions due to linguistic variances, which might have an effect on how effectively the translation works out in the end. This study has two aims: to investigate the types of transpositions and explore the effects resulting from transposition that were discovered in the I…
Preserving Face Threatening Acts in the English Translation of Bumi Manusia
This research aims to find the types of FTA contained in the English translation of the novel Bumi Manusia. Apart from that, this research also analyses translation techniques and the level of translation accuracy. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The research results state that there are two main types of FTA, namely Positive Face Threatening Acts (PFTA) and Negative Face Threatening Acts (NFTA). There is a predominance of PF…
The Translation Techniques Analysis of Javanese Implicature in Speech Act Subtitle in Short Movie Tilik
This research discusses the use of translation techniques on speech act in short movie entitled TILIK that contains implicature and its effect to pragmatical shift. The method used in this research are descriptive qualitative process oriented on translation product. This aims to describe: 1) to identify the types of speech act as well as the maxims involved; 2) to identify translation techniques applied in translating the speech act that contains…
Masculinity Unveiled
This study aims to identify the manifestations of masculinity portrayed by the main characters in the Twilight Saga novel series and to examine the appraisal system utilized to articulate masculinity and its subsequent translation. This research employed qualitative descriptive research. This research was oriented towards translation products. Data sources, including documents and informants, were selected through purposive sampling. The novels T…
Appraising Romanticism in Autobiographical Text
This study aims to examine the appraisal of romanticism in autobiographical text from the perspective of translation study. The data were purposely taken from the autobiography of the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, titled Sukarno, An Autobiography as told to Cindy Adams (1965) and its Indonesian translation (2014). The appraisal resources of romanticisms were evaluated by using Martin and White framework (2005) particularly in terms of at…
Preserving Meaning or Form
The research aims to analyze the structure of the lines of verse in "Hamlet", examines the translation techniques employed, and understands their impact. This study adopts a descriptive qualitative approach with case studies on translation products. It used purposive sampling to select documents, specifically the original verses from "Hamlet" and their Indonesian translations. It gathered insights from informants, including a literary expert, a t…
The Paradoxical Characteristics of Javanese Women in Campursari Lyrics With Mutual and Rejected Romance Themes
Cross-sex relationships between a man and a woman have their own appeal as a theme explored by researchers in creative texts such as song lyrics. The various types of cross-sex relationships in these lyrics reflect the varying characteristics of the participants involved and the language choices employed by the songwriter. Didi Kempot's Javanese Campursari song lyrics, for example, contain a dualism of contradictory female characters penned withi…
Socio-pragmatic analysis of utterances with polite addressing terms
This study delves into cross-cultural translation, specifically utterances including politeness addressing markers in Arabic-English translation through a sociopragmatic lens. By employing a qualitative research design, the study thoroughly examines Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Midaq Alley’ using Spradley’s ethnographic analysis method, which encompasses domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, componential analysis, and cultural theme analysis. The findings of …
An Appraisal Theory Approach to Translate an Emotional Dimension in The Tell-Tale Heart
The study of translation technique with appraisal approach have been done by several researchers. However, the study of affect realitations has not been touched in detail. The affect realitations relates to the emotions that are being felt by someone or characters on the story. Thus, the translator must comprehend to the situational context especially on the emotional dimention. This study aimed to perceive the translator’s translation techniques…
The simile and metaphor in translation of Yemeni spoken Arabic common names of animals and supernatural creatures into English
This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) and their translation into English. The study aims to identify the most effective English translations of these metaphors by sending a questionnaire to 43 native English speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language metaphors and similes (TL) and using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework to classify similes. The findings indicate that YA dialects us…
A Translation Study on Speech Acts Violating Politeness Maxim in Gerald’s Game Novel
This study focuses on how the speech acts violating politeness maxim in a novel titled Gerald’s Game are translated from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Therefore, this study has three main objectives: (1) to find out the types of speech act which could accommodate the violation of politeness maxim, (2) to find out the translation techniques used to translate the speech acts (3) to find out the impact of the translation technique toward the shift …
The Impact of Translation Techniques Toward Translation Quality of Javanese Swear Words in Subtitle Film Yowis Ben 2
The aims of this research are to identify translation techniques and translation quality of swear words in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. This qualitative descriptive research is an embedded-cased study and oriented to translation product. The source data of the research are Javanese swear word in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. The data were collected by document analysis and FGD (Focus Group Discussion)…
Translation Analysis of Speech Act Accommodating Verbal Bullying Events in the Serial Netflix “Sex Education” Film Season 1 and 2
This study aims to describe the use of translation techniques and the quality of speech act translation accommodating verbal bullying events. This study is a qualitative descriptive research which is a type of content analysis research with a single case study on subtitle films. The data were collected by using document analysis techniques and the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) method with the aim of obtaining the validity of the data. The results …
Accuracy in Translations by Visually-Impaired Students and Its Implications for Competence and Improvement Aspects
Translation is a career that can also offer benefits to the visually impaired. Visually impaired translators face the normal technical and non-technical challenges of translation - common for all translators. This means that the quality of the visually impaired translation is not an easy task, as certain categories can be compromised by accuracy. Case studies, which researched the accuracy of translations of two visually impaired students, who ma…
The Impact of Translation Techniques on Translation Methods of Qur’an Translation of Indonesian Ministry of Religion on Fawatih Al-Suwar
This research aims to explore the impact of the translation techniques on translation methods of Qur’an translation of the Indonesian Ministry of Religion on Fawatih al-Suwar. To collect data, observation and focused group discussion were conducted. The results of the analysis revealed that there are 11 translation techniques applied. The most dominant technique in this analysis is the established equivalent technique because it cannot be separat…
Translation Techniques of Sentences Accommodating Satirical Language Styles in The Historical Novels Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa
The purpose of the research is to identify the translation techniques used in translating satirical language style in historical novels Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa. This research is an embedded research with a descriptive qualitative approach conducted on the romance Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa. Data were collected through content analysis and validated by rater through focus group discussions (FGD). The results show that there were…
The Impact of Translation Technique on Translation Quality of Metaphor of Modality in Novel “Anne of Green Gables”
This study aims to identify the impact of translation techniques on translation quality in the novel “Anne of Green Gables.” It is a qualitative research-oriented translation study. The data were collected by content analysis and focus group discussion. The result of this research shows that there are seven translation techniques used to translate the metaphor of modality; they are established equivalence, modulation, deletion, paraphrase, compen…
Translation of Utterances which Accommodate Responses of Expressive Criticizing and Apologizing Speech Acts
There are a lot of foreign novels in Indonesia that are written in English. Indonesians who do not have enough knowledge about the English language need Indonesian translation. Thus, having a translator must be considered when translating a novel, most especially the response of expressive speech acts. This article observes the types of response towards expressive criticizing and apologizing speech acts. It also observes the translation technique…
Translating Booster Expressions
This research aims to see how booster expression as rhetorical devices in several presentation transcripts provided TED.com are translated from English into Indonesian. Given that there are cultural differences in the use of booster expressions from the two countries. Therefore, the objectives of this study are threefold. 1. To find out what presenters use booster expressions as rhetoric tools in several presentations at TED.com, 2. Then look at …
The Impact of Translation Techniques on the Quality of Translation of Judgment Expression that Describes the Main Characters in the Untamed TV Series
The choice of translation technique in translating subtitles greatly affects the quality of translation, both in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. This study aims to determine the impact of choosing a translation technique on the quality of translation and the impact of shifts that occur due to the selection of an inappropriate technique. This study focuses on Judgment's expressions that describe the main character. This is a des…
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Investigating Declarative Knowledge of Professional Translators
Declarative knowledge is a belief system of translators which underlies the prac- tices of translating. It guides translators in decision-making process in an interlingual communication. Exploited simultaneously and effectively with operative knowl- edge it results in the production of a quality. In some cases, as evidenced in process- oriented studies, there is a gap between the two to the extent that what translators know and believe about tran…
Ludic Linguistics
Linguistic research on fictional constructed language (conlang) in video game dominantly employs an approach mimetically designed for fictions and films namely a priori and a posteriori. We argue that a priori and a posteriori are unable to comprehensively analyze the relationship between fictional conlangs with game elements. This research aims at constructing a new taxonomy on fictional conlang design approach that adheres specifically to video…
Translation Technique of “Red Herring” as a Conversation Topic Change in Big Little Lies Novel by Liane Moriarty
Through this paper, the authors expose “Red Herring” as a kind of logical fallacy used to change conversation topic caused by sensitive topics that attack someone’s face. The authors choose qualitative research design since format data is presented by words. Thus, the utterances in Big Little Lies novel by Liane Moriarty are selected as data. To collect the data, the authors applied a documentary study which covers document analysis and Focus Gro…
Translation Technique Analysis of Verbal Abuse in The Dark Heroine
This study highlights English-Indonesian translation of verbal abuse in the novel The Dark Heroine: Dinner With A Vampire by Abigail Gibbs. The novel is a thrilling paranormal set in London, published by HarperCollins in 2012. The novel was the New York Times Best Seller and also dubbed as “The Sexiest Romance You’ll Read This Year”. The purpose of this study is to find out the translation technique that the translator used in translating verbal …
Translation Technique of Women Anger Speech Act in Television Series 13 Reasons Why Season 1
The study aimed to analyze the translation technique used in women's anger speech acts in a television series entitled 13 Reasons Why Season 1. This study was a descriptive qualitative research and an embedded case study. Analysis document and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were used to collect the data. The result shows the behaviour patterns of the translator using various translation techniques in all types of speech acts including direct verbal…
The Impact of Translation Techniques towards the Accuracy of Sarcasm Expression in Television Series the Big Bang Theory
This research aims at mapping out the translation techniques applied in translating sarcasm expressions and describing the impact of translation techniques toward the translation quality in terms of the accuracy aspect. This descriptive qualitative research used documents (i.e. subtitle of television series The Big Bang Theory and its translation in bahasa Indonesia) and informant (i.e. raters) as the data sources. To collect the data, the method…
Translating Ambivalent Sexist Attitudes toward Women in Pulau Buru Quartet
Indonesian classic literary works culturally represent ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women. Instead of campaign againts sexism in most of countries, the novelist directly or indirectly plays role in the case of spreading out sexism. The track record of Indonesian literary works in wide world literature exposes that Pulau Buru quartet written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer has obtained special attention by readers over the globe. It has been transl…
The Impact of Translation Techniques on the Accuracy of the Translation of Commissive Speech Acts’ Responses in Dark Matter Novel
This study was conducted to describe the translation techniques’ impact on the accuracy of the translation of commissive speech act’s responses. The study used descriptive-qualitative research method. The source data used is a novel entitled Dark Matter. The primary data were translation techniques used to translating sentences represented commissive speech acts’ responses. Meanwhile, the secondary data were the quality of the translation of comm…
Teknik Penerjemahan Peristiwa Tutur Bertengkar Dalam Subtitle Film Ted 2
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui teknik penerjemahan apa saja yang digunakan oleh penerjemah untuk menerjemahkan tindak tutur dalam peristiwa tutur bertengkar dan mendeksripsikan dampaknya terhadap pergeseran terjemahan tindak tutur dalam film Ted 2. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah kalimat yang merepresentasikan tindak tutur dalam peristiwa tutur bertengkar dalam subtitle bahasa Indonesia dan Inggris dalam film Ted 2 dan juga teknik pen…
The Impact of Translation Techniques on Translation Methods of Qur’an Translation of Indonesian Ministry of Religion on Fawatih Al-Suwar
This research aims to explore the impact of the translation techniques on translation methods of Qur’an translation of the Indonesian Ministry of Religion on Fawatih al-Suwar. To collect data, observation and focused group discussion were conducted. The results of the analysis revealed that there are 11 translation techniques applied. The most dominant technique in this analysis is the established equivalent technique because it cannot be separat…
Translation Techniques of Sentences Accommodating Satirical Language Styles in The Historical Novels Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa
The purpose of the research is to identify the translation techniques used in translating satirical language style in historical novels Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa. This research is an embedded research with a descriptive qualitative approach conducted on the romance Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa. Data were collected through content analysis and validated by rater through focus group discussions (FGD). The results show that there were…
The Impact of Translation Technique on Translation Quality of Metaphor of Modality in Novel “Anne of Green Gables”
This study aims to identify the impact of translation techniques on translation quality in the novel “Anne of Green Gables.” It is a qualitative research-oriented translation study. The data were collected by content analysis and focus group discussion. The result of this research shows that there are seven translation techniques used to translate the metaphor of modality; they are established equivalence, modulation, deletion, paraphrase, compen…
Translation of Utterances which Accommodate Responses of Expressive Criticizing and Apologizing Speech Acts
There are a lot of foreign novels in Indonesia that are written in English. Indonesians who do not have enough knowledge about the English language need Indonesian translation. Thus, having a translator must be considered when translating a novel, most especially the response of expressive speech acts. This article observes the types of response towards expressive criticizing and apologizing speech acts. It also observes the translation technique…
Translating Booster Expressions
This research aims to see how booster expression as rhetorical devices in several presentation transcripts provided TED.com are translated from English into Indonesian. Given that there are cultural differences in the use of booster expressions from the two countries. Therefore, the objectives of this study are threefold. 1. To find out what presenters use booster expressions as rhetoric tools in several presentations at TED.com, 2. Then look at …
The Impact of Translation Techniques on the Quality of Translation of Judgment Expression that Describes the Main Characters in the Untamed TV Series
The choice of translation technique in translating subtitles greatly affects the quality of translation, both in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. This study aims to determine the impact of choosing a translation technique on the quality of translation and the impact of shifts that occur due to the selection of an inappropriate technique. This study focuses on Judgment's expressions that describe the main character. This is a des…
The Divergent of Ideational Metafunction Realizations in Novel Graphic Translation
This article is a translation product oriented study designed to investigate a systemic way of analyzing the divergent of Ideational metafunction realizations in novel graphic translation using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The objectives of this study are to identify divergent of ideational realizations in the translation and what cause them. The study is a descriptive qualitative with an embedded case study. The linguistics data of thi…
Sufi Healing and the Translation of Metafunction in Al-Hikam Aphorisms
Studies related to Sufi healing have focused on the theories used by Hakim abu-Abdullah Moinuddin al-Chishtiyya related to the power of unconditional love to work healing miracles. The aspects contained in his Book of Sufi Healing consequently become the starting point for the elaboration of the Al-Hikam aphorisms, the monumental work of Ibn Athaillah As-Sakandari. This study aimed to find common ground between Sufi healing and the Al-Hikam aphor…
The Reconstruction of the Image of Javanese as an Old Language Through an English Translation of Javanese Cultural Terms in Indonesian Novel ‘Gadis Kretek’
As on old language, Javanese has its uniqueness. The uniqueness of Javanese language is reflected through the use of speech level and the distinctive specification in addressing things and activities. Consequently, Javanese language is rich with vocabularies and it has many specific cultural terms in many aspects and activities. In Indonesian novel ‘Gadis Kretek’, many Javanese cultural terms are incorporated to depict and construct Javanese soci…
A Translation Study on Speech Acts Violating Politeness Maxim in Gerald’s Game Novel
This study focuses on how the speech acts violating politeness maxim in a novel titled Gerald’s Game are translated from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Therefore, this study has three main objectives: (1) to find out the types of speech act which could accommodate the violation of politeness maxim, (2) to find out the translation techniques used to translate the speech acts (3) to find out the impact of the translation technique toward the shift …
The Impact of Translation Techniques Toward Translation Quality of Javanese Swear Words in Subtitle Film Yowis Ben 2
The aims of this research are to identify translation techniques and translation quality of swear words in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. This qualitative descriptive research is an embedded-cased study and oriented to translation product. The source data of the research are Javanese swear word in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. The data were collected by document analysis and FGD (Focus Group Discussion)…
Translation Analysis of Speech Act Accommodating Verbal Bullying Events in the Serial Netflix “Sex Education” Film Season 1 and 2
This study aims to describe the use of translation techniques and the quality of speech act translation accommodating verbal bullying events. This study is a qualitative descriptive research which is a type of content analysis research with a single case study on subtitle films. The data were collected by using document analysis techniques and the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) method with the aim of obtaining the validity of the data. The results …
Accuracy in Translations by Visually-Impaired Students and Its Implications for Competence and Improvement Aspects
Translation is a career that can also offer benefits to the visually impaired. Visually impaired translators face the normal technical and non-technical challenges of translation - common for all translators. This means that the quality of the visually impaired translation is not an easy task, as certain categories can be compromised by accuracy. Case studies, which researched the accuracy of translations of two visually impaired students, who ma…
An Appraisal Theory Approach to Translate an Emotional Dimension in The Tell-Tale Heart
The study of translation technique with appraisal approach have been done by several researchers. However, the study of affect realitations has not been touched in detail. The affect realitations relates to the emotions that are being felt by someone or characters on the story. Thus, the translator must comprehend to the situational context especially on the emotional dimention. This study aimed to perceive the translator’s translation techniques…
The simile and metaphor in translation of Yemeni spoken Arabic common names of animals and supernatural creatures into English
This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) and their translation into English. The study aims to identify the most effective English translations of these metaphors by sending a questionnaire to 43 native English speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language metaphors and similes (TL) and using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework to classify similes. The findings indicate that YA dialects us…
Preserving Face Threatening Acts in the English Translation of Bumi Manusia
This research aims to find the types of FTA contained in the English translation of the novel Bumi Manusia. Apart from that, this research also analyses translation techniques and the level of translation accuracy. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The research results state that there are two main types of FTA, namely Positive Face Threatening Acts (PFTA) and Negative Face Threatening Acts (NFTA). There is a predominance of PF…
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