METAPHOR TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN VERSION OF SURAH ALI IMRAN
Uswatun Hasanah
English Applied Linguistic, State University of Medan
Jalan Willem Iskandar, Medan, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Post Graduate, Medan, Indonesia
Abstract
One of the messages which need to have the right understanding is the Moslem Holy Scripture, the Quran. It is the final divine revelation provides mankind guidelines in every part of life. The message in the Quran sometimes is stated explicitly, but sometimes implicitly by using figurative language. The most figurative language that occurs in the Quran is a metaphor. This study used descriptive qualitative approach because this analysis had done something with language research. The data were collected from the English and Indonesia translation of surah Ali Imran. The result of this study showed that there are ten metaphor expressions in Surah Ali Imran. There are two metaphor translation strategies applied in English and three strategies in Indonesian.
Keywords: SEMANTICS; METAPHOR; LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; AL QURAN
Topic: Social,Language and Cultural Education