%0 Book Section
%A Ubaidillah, -
%B Adab-International Conferenceon Information and Cultural Sciences2019
%C Yogyakarta
%D 2019
%F digilib:41262
%I Faculty of Adab and Cultural Sciences, UIN Sunan Klaijaga Yogyakarta
%K equivalence; Arab proverb; English proverb
%P 105-117
%T AESTHETIC FUNCTIONS IN TRANSLATION (STUDY IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH PROVERBS)
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/41262/
%X This  article  aims  to  give  interpretersan  understanding  of  the  importance  of  studying  the socio-cultural  environment  in  the  target language,  which  is certainly  very  different  from the source  language. Also,in  translating  proverbs into  other  languages whose  speakers  have different  cultures  with  speakers  of  source  languages,  such  as  Arabic  and  English  cultures.The data source forthe main reference inthis paper is the encyclopedias of Arabic proverbs by  al-Maydani  (1955)  entitledMajma ’al-Amtsal. For  finding  English  proverbs,the  author uses Cambridge Advanced Learner Dictionary, 3rd Editionsoftware and Martin H. Manser's The  Fact  on  File  Dictionaryof  Proverb.  The  aesthetic  function  theory  formulated  by Jan Mukarovsky  was  used in  finding  the  equivalent  translation  of  Arabic  proverbs  into  English proverbs  describing  the foregroundingand automatizationtranslations.  The  selection  of lexicons inArabic proverbs has lot relationswith thecultures of Arab society, which emerge fromvarious domains, such as agriculture, hunting, farm, warfare, trade, and jewelry. As for the  English  proverbs,  of  course,the  lexicons  used  are  widely  found  in  the  lives  of  Western people and in accordance with what wasexpected intheir social situations