Research Article
REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN PERCY JACKSON THE LAST OLYMPIAN AND ITS TRANSLATION
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296579, author={M Rifanda and MR Nababan and Djatmika Djatmika}, title={REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN PERCY JACKSON THE LAST OLYMPIAN AND ITS TRANSLATION}, proceedings={Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Culture Studies, BASA, 20-21 September 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={BASA}, year={2020}, month={6}, keywords={speech act refusal strategy translation novel}, doi={10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296579} }- M Rifanda
MR Nababan
Djatmika Djatmika
Year: 2020
REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN PERCY JACKSON THE LAST OLYMPIAN AND ITS TRANSLATION
BASA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296579
Abstract
This study aims at identifying what refusal strategies in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympia and how they are transferred into their translation. There are twenty-one data gained from chapter one to chapter twenty-three of the novel. First, the researcher identifies the refusal speech act in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympia, the utterances then classified based on the refusal strategy applied in the context. The utterances then were analyzed and described based on the situational context. The analysis also explains why the speaker apply this strategy. The strategy used in the source text is then compared to that in the target text. Based on the data analysis, this study found that both direct and indirect refusal strategies were applied. The most dominant strategy applied, however, is indirect. Morever, the refusal strategies were compared to the translation version in order to find out the shift on refusal strategy.
