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Old Pet Hero Turtles Poster Analysis

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SLT TLT
He 's got his old Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles poster on his side of their bunk-beds.

(p. 35) Zen punya poster Kura-kura Ninja di sisi tempat tidur tingkatnya.

(p. 37)

In the data 22 above, the phrase old Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles poster is a cultural term which is categorized as material culture. The phrase old Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles poster has implicit situational meaning because of the different cultural background of the SLT and TLT. The story described that it was the time for Andy to stay at her father’s house and she had to share bedroom with Zen and Crystal. They had their bunk-beds and put some posters on the side of it. Zen with old Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles poster on his side, and Crystal with a ballet dancer poster on her side. The phrase Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles is familiar for the SL readers as this phrase is the tittle of popular cartoon. In the TLT this film is also popular and watched by many children when the cartoon was on the television. In its translation, the phrase old Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles poster is translated to poster kura-kura Ninja as the cartoon in the TLT entitled Kura-Kura Ninja. There is no problem for the TL readers in understanding this phrase because the meaning of this …show more content…

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