An Analysis of Indonesian Subtitles Translation Strategy in the Movie “Ne Zha”

Subtitle translation is a little bit different from general translation. Technically, subtitle translation has a lot of limitations, for example, space limits and time constraints. In addition, the differences between the source language and the target language become other obstacles. To solve these obstacles, the translator could use the help of translation strategies. The purpose of this research is to analyze the translation problems existing in a Chinese movie and analyze the result of translation strategies used in its subtitle. To analyze the subtitle in “Ne Zha” (2019), the writer used Gottlieb’s ten translation strategies with the qualitative method. The results show that 28 lines in the subtitles do not match the dialogues and the contexts of the movie. From those 28 lines, paraphrasing is the most frequently used. The reason why paraphrasing is the highest is that there are different grammatical structures between the source language and the target language. Therefore, the translator needs to adjust the Chinese subtitles to Indonesian grammar during translation. However, in the process of the adjustment, the translator not only needs to be able to translate the meaning of the source language into the target language but also needs to understand the plot in the movie to be able to produce good translation results

Art · Indonesian · Linguistics · Chemistry · Computer Science · Linguistics and Language Analysis · Philosophy · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media