An Analysis of Sense Based Sentences in Children Short Stories Book and Its Translation

ABSTRACT This research deals with sense based sentence in children short stories book entitled 5 Minute Princess Stories. The aimed of this research is to describe the types of sense based sentence and to describe the equivalence of the illocutionary meaning or speaker’s intention in children short stories book and its translation in Indonesia. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The researcher used children short stories book entitled 5 Minute Princess Stories as the data source. The data of this research are simple declarative sentence. In collecting the data, the researcher employs documentation and observation with the techniques; reading, marking or underlying, and classifying the data. In analyzing data, the researcher used Hurford and Heasley’s theory (1983) to describe sense based sentence and used Austin’s theory (1976) to describe illocutionary meaning. The result of this research showed that there are three variations of the types of sense based sentence from the sixty-five data (100%) found in children short stories book. They are; analysis sentence (4,62%), synthetic sentence (92,31%) and contradiction (3,08%). All kinds of sense based sentences are translated into Indonesian version as their original texts. The illocutionary meaning are stating (29,23%), informing (18,46%), reporting (1,54%), agreeing (1,54%), rejecting (6,15%), calming (3,08%), belong to representative; asking (6,15%), suggestion (6,15%), forbidding (6,15%), warning (1,54%), persuading (1,54%) belong to directive; promising (4,62%) belong to commissive; declaring (3,08%), belong to declarative; expressing pride (6,15%), expressing afraid (1,54%), complimenting (1,54%), worrying (1,54%) belong to expressive. All sense based sentences have the equivalence of illocutionary act as their original intention.