The Translation Analysis of Illocutionary Change in Jojo Moyes’ The Last Letter from Your Lover Novel Translation into Indonesian

Translation is crucial to effective communication between different languages and conveys meaning from one language to another. It can enlarge knowledge about all languages in all parts of the world. Through the techniques and strategies in the translation, there would be no difficulty in understanding a text in a certain language. In the process of translation, a change in structures or elements of a certain language might exist. The structures in every language are unique, and this is often a challenge for a translator to comprehend them. That’s why the researcher is interested in conducting this research. The scope of this research is an Illocutionary change strategy, especially on the application or the changes in the text due to the use of this strategy. This research is conducted to obtain factual data of illocution change in the translation of the sourcebook and analyze the translation results in order to convey the meaning from the source language. The result of this research is crucial to prevent the confusion of understanding the translation result meaning in the target language, especially for the target language readers or learners. Another significance of this research is to add knowledge for those interested in learning the translation. This research uses the qualitative method. The data analysis technique is based on the translation results or the closest equivalence in Indonesian. The results of the analysis show that there is an Illocutionary change strategy that is used by the translator, and certain categories in the translation results are found