Research Method Data collecting Method

35 CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH The discussion of this chapter covers research method, data collecting method and data analysis procedures.

3.1 Research Method

The analysis in this thesis uses library research. Some related references are used to support the theory. The data are collected from the novel entitled “The Lost Symbol”. This study uses descriptive qualitative method. Descriptive qualitative method deals with a research explaining the analysis of a research. The formula dealing with calculating data is only used to support the analysis of the data. The formula is not intended to be the main focus on the research. Nazir 1998 in Simanjuntak 2011:19 says that descriptive method is a method of research that makes the description of the situation of event or occurrence. This study analyzes how the English collocations are translated into Indonesian.

3.2 Data collecting Method

The main source of the data was a novel entitled “The Lost Symbol” written by Dan Brown which is published by Doubleday, United states in 2009 as the source text and its translation in Bahasa Indonesia with the same title “The Lost Symbol” translated by Ingrid Dwijani Nimpoeno which is published by Bentang Pustaka, Yogyakarta in 2010 as the target text. Both novels are the source of data; the writer selects only utterances containing collocations in each chapter. www.nitropdf.com UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SIMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 36

3.3 Data Analysis Procedures