CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

This chapter deals with the foundation and general overview of the research undertaken. It consists of the background of the study, the research questions, the aims of the study, the significance of the study, the research method, the data source, the data collecting and analyzing techniques, the clarification of key terms and the organization of the paper.

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Background Human language is human’s potential as a mean of intentional

communication (Yule, 1996: 20). People use language to communicate with each other. Thus, the use of language plays a very important role in people’s communication. There are various languages in this world and those languages are used by people in different nations and ethnics. Different languages used by people in different places and communities are defined as language varieties (Hudson, as cited in Wardhaugh, 1992: 21). People not only need to communicate with other people in one nation or ethnic who use the same language, but they also need to communicate with other people in other nations or ethnics who use different languages. Understanding people’s languages in the language varieties is the way to make a good communication. Therefore, a good understanding is required by people whose languages are different, in order to make a successful communication.

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There are many ways that can be used to understand different languages and one of them is translation. Translation is the process of rendering the meaning of a text of one language into a text of another language, in which the message that the author of the source language (SL) intends can be understood by the readers in the target language (TL) (Newmark, 1988: 5). Therefore, the translation process can be used by people whose languages are different, in order to make a successful communication. The degree of equality should be taken into a