CULTURAL FILTERS IMPLIED IN BILINGUAL STORY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN TRANSLATED FROM INDONESIAN TO ENGLISH (An Analysis of Cultural Filter in ‘I am Me Series Books’ Written by Robyn Soetikno)

Abstract

The phenomena of bilingual story books for children reveal trends of Indonesian – English in literature. The needs of the children to consume bilingual story books are known as the effort of parents, schools, and other parties to give children exposures related to two different translated texts from two different languages. There are some research methods used in this research such as applying content analysis, conducting interview, doing observation and making classifications. There are three problems that are raised in this research namely how is the cultural filter implied in the two bilingual story books ‘I am Me series’?, how could three perceptions of human modeling support the cultural filters implied in translation of bilingual story books ‘I am Me series? And what are the dimensions of cross-cultural differences designed between Indonesian and English in the three bilingual story books ‘I am Me series’? The objectives of this research are to contribute an exploration of the theory of cultural filter in translation and to answer the research problems using the proper theory. In the results of this research, the theory used could show how the cultural filters are implied in the books such as values (feeling of disappointment, sexual and genital terms, and honorific uses), behaviors (interaction between people and giving praises), and point of views (social and self-orientations, and active – passive forms). There are three modeling perceptions found such as generalizations, deletions and distortions. Furthermore, the cross-cultural dimensions between Indonesian and English could be formulated as well.