AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF TRANSLATION EDITING AND TRANSLATION PROCESS OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE “A STREET CAT NAMED BOB”

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study the type of translation editing and translation process in  James Bowen’s autobiographical literature “A Street Cat Named Bob”, in Thai translated version by Thidarat Charoenchaichana. The analysis was conducted using qualitative data through 21 samples. The researcher applied the principle of translation editing by Sanchawi Saibua to analyze all the data. The findings were classified into two levels, which were adjustment in the word level and language structure level. The result indicated that in the word level, using phrases or sentence instead of words were used most frequently, found 9 times. In addition, the rearrangement of word order in sentences or phrase was mostly frequently used in the language structure, found 15 times. In terms of the translation process, the translator mostly used literal translation technique in order to keep meanings closely to the original version, including feeling and natural flow as well.