Translation Analysis in Menu of Mobile Phone: The Indonesian Language Used in Nokia 3530

ABSTRACTRosyid, Halim. 2009. Translation Analysis in Menu of Mobile Phone: theIndonesian Language Used in Nokia 3530. Thesis, EnglishDepartment, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisor:Drs. Arif Subiyanto, M.A.Key words: translation, translation analysis, menu, mobile phone.This study aimed at analysing the Indonesian translation in the menu ofNokia 3530. In addition, this study focused on examining the translationprocedures used to translate menu items in mobile phone Nokia 3530, identifyingthe degree of message conservation and also suggesting some improvements forthe translations. This study belongs to qualitative study; the research ontranslation tends to be subjective, while the theory is merely used to validate theresearch. Therefore, the researcher is still the decision maker. Moreover, theresearcher does not seek data to confirm or reject any hypothesis. The data of thisstudy were selected from the menu items of mobile phone Nokia 3530.The results of this study showed that the most frequent translationprocedure used in translating words in menu of mobile phone Nokia 3530 wasLiteral translation, while at phrase level the most frequent procedure used wasTransposition and the most frequent translation procedure used to translatesentence is Literal translation. In addition, from the degree of messageconservation aspect, all levels were considered as faithful translation. At wordlevel, the percentage of Faithful translation is 89.2%. At phrase level, thepercentage is 90.2% and at sentence level is 70.8%.Based on the results of the study, some suggestions were given to thefuture researchers and to the English learners. The future researchers who aregoing to conduct translational studies are suggested to be more creative andinnovative in conducting a translational research on mobile phone. Similarly,translation learners should be able to learn from the findings of this research. Withthe findings, translation learners should be able to make them as good referencesfor their study