THE TRANSLATION SHIFT IN THE LORD’S PRAYER BY KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) FROM ENGLISH INTO INDONESIAN

This study deals with translation shift in the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian which taken in Matthew 6: 9 - 13. It was aimed to find out the types of the translation shift and techniques used in the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian. This study used descriptive qualitative method was the design describe in qualitative research. The source of data this research were focused on the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) which taken from Matthew 6: 9 - 13. The data of this study were collected from the words, phrases, or clauses which contained the types of translation shift in the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian which taken from Matthew 6: 9 - 13. The data were analyzed by variant types of category shifts to Catford’s theory whereas for translation techniques refer to Vinay and Darbelnet’s theory and Molina and Albir’s theory. Based on the data analysis, it was found that there are four kinds of category shifts used in translating the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian, namely: Structural shifts, Class shifts, Unit shifts, and Intra System shifts. Then the researcher found seven techniques used in translating the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian, namely: amplification, calque, discursive creation, literal translation, modulation, reduction and transposition. It has been showed the dominant shifts used in translating the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian was class shifts 50%. Furthermore, the structural shifts and unit shifts found 20.8% and intra system shifts 8.3%. The dominant shifts occurred when a translation equivalence of an source language items is a member of a different class from the original item. Whereas the dominant techniques used in translating the Lord’s Prayer by King James Version (KJV) from English into Indonesian was amplification 36.4%. On the other hand, reduction and literal translation found 15.1%, calque found 12.1%, modulation 9.1%, discursive creation and transposition 6.1%. The dominant techniques occurred because a technique in process of translating to introduce details that are not formulated in the source language: information, explicative paraphrasing.