A Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and English Interjection in The Novel Laskar Pelangi And The Rainbow Troops

Abstract

Interjection expression is one of class part of speech that is rarely discussed in
translation research. More than expression interjection has several points such as types, form,
function and even meaning in communication. Furthermore, the early interjections research
has been conducted in the same topic of interjection in the novel but their topic was focused
on the topics of technique of translating interjection, translation strategies of interjection in
novel and analysis of interjection in terms of types, meaning and form. As a complement to
earlier interjection research, this research comes with different method. The contrastive
analysis method has been employed as a method for several studies that purpose to see the
difference and similarities between two languages however among the previous research it
has never been compared interjection expression. Therefore, the researcher interested to find
out the difference and similarities between Indonesian and English interjections in the novel.
The researcher used Laskar pelangi and the Rainbow troop novels by Andrea Hirata as the
object of this research. Consequently, this research focused on finding the differences and
similarities of interjection expression in term of meaning and types. This research employed
qualitative descriptive method. The data were all interjection expressions found in the two
versions of Laskar Pelangi novels based on the theory interjection classification by O’Connell
and analyzed by using contractive analysis theory by Lado (1957).However, The research
found that the differences and similarities between Indonesian and English interjections in
terms of meaning and types are interjection expressions that have similar form and similar
meaning, interjection expression that have different meaning but similar form and interjection
expression that have similar meaning but different form.