The Translation of Metaphors in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Abstract

This research analyzed the metaphors in the original English text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which had been translated into Indonesian despite the cultural differences, and uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The data was collected through document examination, focusing on the original English text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its Indonesian translation. Furthermore, the data were arranged in the table with descriptive explanations for each of them. The researcher found 19 linguistic expressions that contain metaphorical cases such as structural type, orientational type, and ontological type. 19 linguistic expressions contain, such as 4 linguistic expressions that are classified as structural metaphors, 4 linguistic expressions that are classified as orientational metaphors, and the last one is 11 linguistic expressions that are classified as ontological metaphors.

Keywords: Literature; Linguistic; Metaphor; Translation