Abstract:
Translating a book into other languages requires sufficient knowledge. It cannot just
randomly be translated, because readers may have difficulty understanding the
content. It is important to know and understand the techniques of translation before
translating to avoid making mistakes. Before translating a book, the translator should
know and understand some translation techniques. The researcher conducted this
study to find translation techniques that were applied by the translator in translating
cultural words in the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This research
used descriptive qualitative research. The source of the data is The Hunger Games
novel written by Suzanne Collins and its Indonesian version that is translated by Hetih
Rusli. The research instrument in this study is the researcher herself with the help of
table list. The researcher considered to focus on cultural words in the novel as a
necessary data and analyzed the translation techniques based on the theory by Molina
and Albir. The result of this research showed that there are twelve translation techniques which were applied by the translator in translating 84 cultural words
found in the novel. There are 29 calque, 19 Borrowing, 13 Amplification, 6 Linguistic
compression, 2 Description, 5 Discursive creation, 3 Linguistic amplification, 2
Literal translation, 2 Particularization, 1 Established equivalent, 1 Generalization,
and 1 Reduction. The researcher offers that the reason why the translator mostly used
calque technique is because most of the cultural words in The Hunger Games novel
have the equivalent in Indonesian.
