Symbolic Title Writing Techniques

C. Method of the Study

The method applied for this thesis is library research. The writer focused on the data that has been collected, which are the detective books by Agatha Christie with Hercule Poirot as the main character. The theories used to analyze the data were the theory of equivalence, translation techniques, and techniques to write interesting titles. These theories were taken from various books in the field of translation studies and journalism for the title. Thus, the theories used in this thesis are based on the theories from the experts of each field, for example, theory of equivalence from Nida, theory of translation techniques from Molina and Albir, and techniques to write interesting titles from Putra. The writer will use examples and evidences to answer the problems which are stated in first chapter.

D. Research Procedure

1. Types of Data

The data collected are categorized as an objective data. It is because the data were taken from the Agatha Christie’s books with Hercule Poirot as the main character as the Source Text ST and Target Text TT but in two different languages, English and Bahasa Indonesia. The first data used in this thesis are the title s of Agatha Christie’s books in SL, which is English. These English versions of Agatha Christie’s books were published by two publishers, Fontana and HarperCollins. Both are large English-language publishing companies. The PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI publication year of the books with Hercule Poirot as the main character was from 1920-1975. The titles collected for this thesis are derived from thirty two book titles. The second data are the titles of Agatha Christie’s books in TL, which is Bahasa Indonesia. These Indonesian versions of Agatha Christie’s books were published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama. The publication year of the books with Hercule Poirot as the main character was from 1920-1975.

2. Data Collection

Data collection was done first to get the sample for the analysis. Firstly, the writer researched Christie’s books to find which ones had Hercule Poirot as the main character. After that, the writer looked at her personal collection in order to find some of those books. As the result, the writer did not have few books that are needed in this thesis. Thus, the writer searched in the campus library and located some of the books. Besides that, the writer found the rest on online resources, including Christie’s official website. After finding and collecting the data, then the writer began the analysis. The number of Agatha Christie ’s book titles with Hercule Poirot as the main character were classified based on the language used. The example is shown below: Table 3. Classification of Data Code SL Title Code TL Title 2SLAD Appointment with Death 2TLPM Perjanjian dengan Maut