NON-EQUIVALENCE AT WORD LEVEL IN THE GREAT GATSBY

This study deals with the non-equivalence at word level in the novel The Great Gatsby. This study was conducted by using descriptive-qualitative research design which tried to find what problems caused the problem of non-equivalence at word level found in the novel The Great Gatsby, the translation used to transfer the meaning of the words and why the dominant translation strategy was used as the way it is. The object of this research was 180 words taken from nine chapters in the novel The Great Gatsby. This research used documentary technique, that is reading, identifying, classifying, and displaying. Reading is the activity of various sources related to the research, identifying is making the data inventory, classifying is to classify the data based on each category and displaying is to display the data collected. The data was analyzed based on analysis of Miles, Huberman and Saldana’s method. And from the research, it was found that there were six out of eleven problems of non-equivalence at word level found in the novel The Great Gatsby. They were culture specific concept (40 data), the source language concept is not lexicalized in the target language (28 data), the source and target language make distinction in meaning (39 data), the target language lacks hyponym (14 data), the difference in physical or interpersonal perspective (32 data), and difference in form (27 data). And to solve the problems, it was found that the eight translation strategies proposed by Baker were applicable. They were translation by a more general word (35.5%), translation by a more neutral or less expressive word (12.2%), cultural substitution (7.9%), translation by loan word or loan word with explanation (8.8%), translation by paraphrase using a related word (20.7%), translation by paraphrase using unrelated word (11.6%), translation by omission (1.1%), and translation by illustration (2.2%). Translation by a more general word was the most dominant strategy used to solve the problem of non-equivalence at word level in The Great Gatsby because the strategy was applicable to solve various problems of non-equivalence.