IDOMATIC EXPRESSIONS ANALYSIS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THEIR INDONESIAN EQUIVALENTS

Abstract

This study aims at identifying and analyzing the types of idiomatic expressions in New Testament and their Indonesian Equivalents as well as the shifting process of idiomatic expressions in New Testament and their Indonesian Equivalents. Translation has become an essential part of human activities for years. Through translation, people of different languages are able to learn and to know more about knowledge, which is mostly written in English. Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language (RL) the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message (SL), first in term of meaning and second in terms of style. Furthermore, the main purpose of translating is on reproducing message. However, to reproduce the message, a translator should make a good grammatical and lexical equivalent. In line with the Bible translation, we do realize that the attempts of translating it into a number of languages including Indonesian have been done for years. There are many aspects of the New Testament, which can be analyzed in the field of translation. The method of this study is attentive qualitative. The findings of this study are: the types of SL idiomatic expression and their Indonesian equivalents consist of phrasal and sentential idiomatic expression. The most occurrence type found is phrasal idiomatic expression. The kind of shift mostly occurs in the translation is category shift. The types of category shift involved are class shift, structure shift, unit shift and intra-system shift. Moreover, the shifts are mostly found in syntactical analysis but in semantic analysis the shift does not always occur.