MITIGATING SPEECH ACTS OF CRITICIZING AND ITS TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES ANALYSIS IN SIREN’S LAMENT WEBTOON IN ENGLISH TO INDONESIAN VERSION

Abstract

This paper proposed to analyze mitigation speech acts of criticizing forms in Siren's Lament Webtoon in English to Indonesian version, to determine the utilization of translation techniques, and to measure the translation quality of expressions mitigating speech acts of criticizing in the webtoon. The research applied descriptive qualitative method. The researchers found 34 data of expression mitigating speech acts of criticizing consisted 4 external mitigation and 7 internal mitigation types. There were 13 technique types from 18 translation techniques applied to translate the expressions of mitigating speech acts of criticizing. Thus, these techniques impact the accuracy and acceptability of the translation quality.