C. Method of the Study
This undergraduate thesis usedempirical method.This method was done by collecting the data and giving some questionnaires to some respondents to assess the
equivalence and the acceptability of the data. After giving the questionnaires, the respondents were interviewed to verify the data.
1. Kinds of Data
The data in this research are divided into two types. They are: a.
Objective Data Objective data consist of the expressions of irritation taken from the film Ice
Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaur in English and the subtitle in Indonesianis taken from
the original VCD. b.
Affective Data In order to get the affective data, the writer analyzes the data and
distributessome questionnaires to some respondentswhich are used to support the analysis. The questionnaires to assess the equivalence is distributed to 3 English
letters students who meet some criteria: 1 master English and Indonesian, 2 have passed Translation class with grade A, and 3are interested in translation. The second
questionnaires which are to assess the acceptability is distributed to 3 people who meet these criteria: 1 have watched the film Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaur and
2 love watching movies supported by subtitles. The criteria given to each kind of questionnaire are made so that the respondents‟ assessmentsare qualified.
2. Data Collection
In order to get the text film dialogue and subtitle text, the writer studied the film Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaur and collected the film dialogue in SL English
and subtitle text in Indonesian TL. The step of classification was done to find out the expressive utterances found in the film dialogue and subtitle text. From this step,
there are 25 expressions of irritationwhich is found that includes expressions of anger and annoyance.
After collecting all the dialogue and the subtitle, the writer collected the secondary data through questionnaires. The data questioned in the questionnaires
were taken by taking samples. The sampleswere taken by purposive sampling, so that the data could represent the information that is needed in this research. The
questionnaires for assessing the equivalence needed both the SL text and TL text, while the questionnaires for assessing the acceptability needed only the TT. The
examples of the questionnaires are given below: Table 1. Example of the Questionnaires to Assess the Equivalence
No. Character
Source Language
Target Language
Equivalence Comment
E NE
1. Neighbor
Scene 1 Watch it
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The table above shows the questionnaires to assess the equivalence. The respondents were asked to compare the SL text and TL text and judge whether the
utterance is equivalent or not. The equivalence is determined from the meaning equivalence.
Table 2. Example of the Questionnaires to Assess the Acceptability
No. Character
Target Language Accepta-
bility Visual
Aspect Comment
A NA
2. Neighbor
Scene 1 Tahusiapa yang
maukutendang?
The table above shows the questionnaires to assess the acceptability. The respondents were asked to analyze the TL subtitle; judge whether the utterance is
acceptable or not and whether the visual aspects are important in delivering the message or not. The acceptability is determined from the audience‟s understanding.
3. Data Analysis
The data analysis was done to the SL dialogue of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaur
and the subtitle in TL. The data analysis was firstly done by studied and compared the SL and TL text carefully. As what has mentioned in the theory of
equivalence in chapter 2, equivalence means the TL and the SL text must convey the same message.
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