Between Partial Translation and Summary Translation in Translating the Sundanese Folklore into English

Abstract

The strategies of partial translation and summary translation are related but not exactly the same. There are some characteristics indicating each of them. This research article is about the translation of the most popular Sundanese folklore, which is written in the Sundanese language and translated into English. It deals with literary translation as the data source is folklore, and folklore is included as literary work. Using content analysis of the descriptive qualitative research method, this research aims to identify what information in the source text is partially translated and which information is summarized. The theory used is one of the pragmatic strategies given by Chesterman: the strategy of partial translation. The results show that the strategies used in identifying the missing information are partial translation, summary translation, and the combination of partial translation and summary translation. The partial translation is used to avoid repetition, eliminate very detailed information or complex information, and change explicit information into implicit information. The summary translation is used to create a short summary of information involving the key points or messages given in the source text by adopting the syntactic form of the target text based on the grammatical rules.