The translation techniques of illocutionary act in the short story diary of a wimpy kid: the last straw into diary Si Bocah Tengil: Usaha Terakhir

The translation of speech need special notice. Because there is other purpose from the speaker in a speech. This other purpose must be revealed by translator. The situation context, the content of speech, speaker social position and the hearers are the things that need observed in analyzing the speeches. In this research, the writer focuses on translation studythat is the translation of illocutionary act in the short story Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw. The aim of the research is to analyze the illocutionary act in the short story and to find out the translation technique. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative analysis in which the writer describes speeches that contain illocutionary act in the short story by theory of John. R. Searle and the translation technique by Lucia Mollina and Albir�s theory. The writer uses herself as instrument of research to collects the data; by reading the short story, finding the speeches that includein illocutionary act, marking and classifying the kinds of illocutionary act and finding the translation technique by analyzing them. From the analysis, the writer concludes that the illocutionary acts used in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw can be classified into representative, directive, expressive and declaration. There are eight of translation techniques that found in this short story, namelymodulation,literal, particularization, reduction, pure borrowing, linguistics amplification, compensation, and description. And the most translation technique used is literal