SUBTITLING STRATEGIES USED IN CARTOON FILM ENTITLED BEE MOVIE AND ITS APPLICATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

This research is concerned with linguistic phenomenon, not cultural. The objective of this research are to identify subtitling strategies used in cartoon film entitled Bee Movie and applying subtitling strategies in cartoon film entitled Bee Movie in language teaching. This research is a descriptive qualitative research because it is aimed at analyzing the subtitling strategies in cartoon film. The researcher makes a study about the theory of subtitling strategies; especially based on Henrik Gottlieb’s theory, collecting data by full watching Bee Movie and compared the English and Indonesia texts of the selected movies. Downloading the English script of movies from internet, identifying the subtitling in the cartoon film, reading te articles related to this study, then comparing the English and Indonesia texts. In analyzing the data the researcher finds the idea from the cartoon film that can be used for improving vocabulary the students in English language teaching. Based on the analysis, the outcome of this research indicated that all Gottlieb’s proposed strategies were applicable to the cartoon film entitled Bee Movie. There are ten strategies applied at subtitles. They are transfer, imitation, paraphrase, deletion, decimation, expansion condensation, transcription, dislocation and resignation. It was concluded that the cartoon film using different strategies. The researcher hopes that this thesis will enrich the knowledge of translation, especially subtitling strategies for the teachers and students who should be able to improving vocabulary in teaching-learning listening activity.