AN ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES IN TRANSLATING SUBTITLE IN THE LION KING MOVIE

This research aims to find out the types of subtitle strategies applied in the
The Lion King movie (2019). The research method in this study is descriptive
qualitative that involves 889 utterances of the movie transcript and 89 utterances
are chosen by using random sampling technique. The object of this study is the
transcript of The Lion King movie where the English text becomes the source
language (SL) and Indonesian becomes the target language (TL) which is then
analyzed. The data are analyzed based on Gottlieb’s (1992) theory. The research
found that the ten subtitle strategies based on Gottlieb’s (1992) theory were
applied in the movie. Those were Paraphrase, Transfer, Expansion, Deletion,
Condensation, Imitation, Dislocation, Decimation, Resignation and Transcription.
Based on the result, it can be concluded that the Paraphrase strategy became the
most dominant. This strategy mostly occurred probably because it was appropriate
as the target audience and the aims of the subtitle which must be readable and
understandable. Overall, the subtitler translated the source language completely
and precisely. Besides, Transcription strategy was the most rarely used in The
Lion King Movie propably in order to minimize the use of foreign languages with
unfamiliar terms for the audience's background knowledge of children.
Keywords : Analysis, Strategies in Translating Subtitle, The Lion King Movie