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two female subjects translators, and an indicator of readability measured from one until four, and in which one means the most readable TT.
The subjects or translators are the students from English Letters Department of Sanata Dharma University. The students who became the subjects
were the ones who had taken and passed Translation I course in fourth semester and Translation II course in sixth semester with an optimal score minimum
score of eighty. The choice of the subjects was not based on whether he or she likes literary texts including romantic texts or not. The choice was based on their
competence in translating a text,
e.g.
romantic text. The competence of their language use was seen through the theory of gender and language.
2. Data Collection
The data of this study were taken from books, assignments, and questionnaires. The first data of this study were the source text. The data were
taken from several sentences in Nicholas Sparks’s
A Walk to Remember.
The second data were taken from the four translators that were assigned to translate
several sentences from the novel. The coding was done as follows.
Code Text
14STP841 You’ve got the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever
met. 53TTF1
Kau punya hati seluas samudra yang tak bisa disaingi siapa pun.
54TTF2 Kau adalah orang yang paling berhati besar yang
pernah kutemui 55TTM1
Hatimu adalah hati terbesar yang pernah kutemui.
56TTM2 Kamu punya hati paling besar diantara semua
orang yang pernah kutemui
Table 3.1. Example of Code
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14STP841 meant that in the source text data number 14, the source text was categorized as promoting passion P or promoting feelings F on page
84 and 1 showed the line of the sentence. 53TTF1 meant the target text of the name of translator. For example, the text was the 53
th
in TT. F1 meant the first female translator.
After the researcher obtained the second data, the third data were the questionnaires to the respondents who assessed the translated text from female or
male translators. The respondents chose and guessed the answer. Then, the researcher made the coding tables in each sentence.
3. Population and Sample
The population of this study was the sentences taken from Nicholas Sparks’s
A Walk to Remember
. The sample data are the sentences containing certain romantic elements in the population. The sampling method that was used
in this research was purposive sampling. The reason why the researcher used purposive sampling method was because the researcher focused on the sentences
containing romantic elements which were related to the three formulated problems of this research. Thus, the sentences that did not contain romantic elements were
discharged because it was unnecessary to answer the three formulated problems.
4. Data Analysis
In order to answer all of the problems above, the researcher needed to conduct several steps for analyzing the data. The first step was to determine a
problem that would be analyzed. In this study, the problems that would be analyzed were equivalence, readability, and the
influence of the translator’s
