Preparation of Papers in Two-Column Format for AISTEEL Conference Proceedings

Translation of cultural expressions is problematic,
for the fact that the formation of such expressions is highly influenced by culture. There are culture-bound expressions that are exclusive to certain communities and environments and nonexistent in others. This complicates translating those expressions as the receptive language lacks equivalents. Therefore,translators should adopt certain translation strategies that can reflect an approximation of those expressions, or provide an
acceptable compensation for an inescapable cultural loss.
Translator has to face a challenge in translating cultural aspects from a source language to a target language. This study analyzed the strategies used by translator in transferring the cultural values in Ratatouille film, in which there were so many cultural
terms. The research conducted was descriptive-qualitative by using content analysis as the technique of collecting data. This study used theory triangulation. Based on the study, it was got that there were eight strategies applied by the translator in transferring the cultural terms in Ratatouille film; those were:translation by a more general word, translation by a more neutral/less expressive word, translation by cultural substitution,
translation using a loan word or loan word plus explanation,translation by a related word, translation by unrelated words,translation by omission, and translation by illustration.