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THE STRATEGY OF TRANSLATING PUN IN ENGLISHINDONESIAN SUBTITLE OF AUSTIN POWERS: GOLDMEMBER
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comedy movie's subtitle. The data is taken from a comedy
movie Austin Powers: Goldmember. There are three
problems that are being discussed in this paper. The first
problem is the effect of different types of pun to
translatability. Second, the strategies in translating different
types of pun are discussed The last is the assessment of
translation using register analysis in evaluating the extent of
loss and gain occurred in the translation process.
Key words: pun, translatability, translation strategy, register
theory
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