The Importance Of Idiomatic Expression In Literature

This chapter attempts to discuss the basic consideration of this research regarding the strategies in translating idiomatic expression followed by the research question and the research objective. It also explains the significances of the research in terms of theoretical and practical equipment.

Basic consideration

Every language has its own idioms which probably have no literal meaning into another language. Idiomatic expressions itself are expressions of cultural-bound (Al-Rushaidi et al, 2016), and every culture of different county takes different perspective from others. Idiomatic expression is easily to discovery in several works of English, particularly in literature works i.e. Novel.

Idiom in the novel is commonly used to describe the

In non-literary works, it is a process of transferring the idea of the systematic, and scientific works that have to deal with the grammatical structure, and factual information. While in literary works, it is about conveying the idea of imaginative writing. It is a work that closest to the critics of life whether individuals or society that replicates on short story, poetry, drama, or novel (Newmark, 2007). Major Concerns of the literary translators are the several aspects that appear in literary works such as; ethical aspect, cultural aspect, and the syntactical aspects (Newmark, 1988). The previous researcher stated that in order to achieve a good translation, the translator requires several particular parts to be acknowledged such as wide knowledge of both culture SL and TL, imagination, creativity, and mastering the literature

Research Significances

In terms of theoretical contribution, this research would be an essential element to help the future scientists in which this study features the observation; (data collection), and deep analysis; (data display, etc.) upon the process of idiomatic translations. It also will help the future researcher establishes the current science in terms of identifying the relevance between the original version of the novel and the translated one in the process of transferring the idea.

As for the practical contribution, firstly it is to make people aware of the importance of coherence of idiomatic expression from the SL to the TL of the novel translation. Furthermore, in form of practical action in which there will be an advance research with the related topic based on this paper. Secondly, the findings of this research would be a comparison of the translated version of the idiomatic expressions and the original one, in which they are meant to show to readers how the process of idiomatic translations occurs. Hence, they will understand whether or not the particular translations give an impact to quality of the