Strategies of Translation in Live Metaphors in Sumatera Folklores Into English

摘要

This study investigated the strategies of translation in live metaphors in Sumatera folklores into English. This study was conducted to describe the strategies applied in the translation live metaphors in the Sumatera folklores. This study was conducted by using qualitative design. The data were the utterances of live metaphor in Sumatera folklores. The findings showed that there were strategies in translating live metaphors was proposed by Larson's theory. Language has special characteristic that is live metaphors phrases, therefore in the case of translating the metaphor phrases in which their concept in unknown for readers, the translator often faces the problem to translate a live metaphor from a source language (SL) into a target language (TL).