Penerjemahan Bentuk Negasi Informal dalam Novel “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” Karya Mark Twain

This paper aimed to know some specific features of negation as a dialect used by Tom Sawyer Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and to describe translation of negation as informal sentences in Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. The negations that are used by Tom Sawyer are obvious as nonstandard English. It will be interesting because Tom Sawyer’s specific negations are the negations that are typically American, and those are still used until nowadays.

The writer will not conduct any research in pronunciation because the pronunciation of every one can be different, but it analyze how this informal and the negation translated into Indonesian. The negation is a very common feature of the spoken nonstandard English. The writer will collect the data in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and its Indonesian translation as the main source for the analysis. There are 174 speeches as the data that is uttered by Tom Sawyer. The informal negation feature divided into four groups as stated in data analyzing, they are the use of ain’t, the use of hain’t, the use of warn’t, and the use of double negation. After analyze Tom Sawyer’s dialect feature in negative contraction and how to translate of it into Indonesian, it is concluded that there are many in equivalent meaning from the Indonesian book of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because many of utterance not translated to in standard form of negation Indonesian. So it can conclude that translator must consider to form of source language if they want make the translation more equivalent.