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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of six parts, namely: research method, research setting, research participants subjects, instruments and data gathering technique,
data analysis technique, and research procedure.
A. Research Method
To look into translation methods and procedures applied on the translated Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, the researcher conducted a qualitative
research. The type of research chosen was content analysis. It could also be considered as a specific form of typological analysis. Weber defined this type as
“look at documents, text, or speech to see what themes emerge.” It then tends to be theory driven with specified rules for data analysis as cited in Ratcliff, n. d..
The text examined was in a form of novel. It then used a case study with sentences as the strategy. This strategy used to reveal the patterns schemes in
data and any possible relationship among them.
B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted the content analysis research during February to October 2011.
C. Research Participants Subjects
The subjects of the research in this thesis were in the form of texts, which were two versions of Paulo Coelho’s the Alchemist novel. One of them was
a 177-page English edition by Alan R. Clarke, which was published by Harper San Francisco in 1999. Another one was a 196-page Indonesian edition by Hamid
Basyaib and Yunita, which was published by Pustaka Alvabet in 2004. Data used for analysis were sample of words, phrases, and clauses within sentences in the
novels. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2008 defined sampling as “the process of systematically selecting that which will be examined during the course
of a study”. Type of sampling fitted to the data was stratified purposive sampling. Patton stated this type of sampling as “samples within samples and suggests that
purposeful samples can be stratified or nested by selecting particular units or cases that vary according to a key dimension” as cited in Ratcliff, n. d.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
As Patton mentioned about research instrument in qualitative research, researcher functioned as the human instrument of data collection as in Hoepfl,
1997. The other instruments accompanied were list of sub-categories pre-defined to gather eligible data as summarized in Table 3.1 in this chapter. To obtain the
representative data, researcher took 60 sentences from the two parts of the novel: 15 from the first half part and 45 from the other part. The ratio 1:3 taken was in
accordance to the ratio of pages between both parts, in which the second part is almost three times than the first.
E. Data Analysis Technique
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