Foreignizing and Domesticating Harry: An Analysis of the Indonesian Translation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Issy Yuliasri; Pamela Allen

doi:10.22962/tnirvw.2014.4..006

Foreignizing and Domesticating Harry: An Analysis of the Indonesian Translation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

T&I REVIEW
Abbr : tnirvw
2014, 4(), pp.127-146
DOI : 10.22962/tnirvw.2014.4..006
Publisher : Ewha Research Institute for Translation Studies
Research Area : Humanities > Interpretation and Translation Studies
Published : June 9, 2014

Issy Yuliasri ¹, Pamela Allen ²

¹Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
²University of Tasmania, Australia

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This paper discusses the approaches and techniques used to translate vocatives and culture-specific items (CSIs) in the Indonesian translation of J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The paper identifies a number of translation techniques and considers their effectiveness or otherwise in dealing with the linguistic challenges of translating a humorous children’s story that is embedded in a specific culture. While it is argued that in translating the vocatives the translator’s approach tends towards foreignizing, and in translating the CSIs a more domesticating approach is used, it is acknowledged that a translator’s choice to foreignize or domesticate may be constrained by external circumstances such as publisher’s protocols, the norms and mores of the target culture and ‘the position of children’s books in the literary polysystem’ (Shavit 1981: 172).

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Harry Potter, Indonesian, vocatives, culture-specific items

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