Research Approach Sources, Form, and Context of Data

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Research Approach

This research employed mixed methods, both descriptive qualitative method and quantitative method. Mixed method research is a research designed or methodology in which the researcher collects, analyzes, and mixes integrates or connects both quantitative and qualitative data in a single study or a multiphase program of inquiry Creswell, 2003. The purpose of this method of research is that the combination of both qualitative research and quantitative research provide a better understanding of a research problem or issue than either research approach alone. This research focused on categorizing the proper nouns found in House of Secrets novel. The analysis allowed this research to set up categories and count occurrences belong to each category. Then, the collected data were recommended to be counted using a simple statistics. The qualitative research applied descriptive analysis and process in which facts and or individual ideas of the researcher were gained to achieve a general conclusion from specific situations. The quantitative data then complemented qualitative data in terms of giving precise frequency of proper nouns occurrence. This combination was held to attempt the investigation of the ideological tendency as proposed by Venuti 2003 that domestication and foreignization of the translation of proper nouns in House of Secrets can trace the strategies employed by the translator.

B. Sources, Form, and Context of Data

The sources of the data were House of Secrets novel by Chris Columbus and Ned Davinci and its Indonesian translated novel entitled House of Secret by Lulu Fitri Rahman. The data of this research were the proper nouns which exist in the analyzed novel. The data were in the form of words and phrases which are found in the expressions or sentences inside the text or paragraph as the context of data. The novels were chosen because they have enough adequate data in the form of proper nouns which can be observed for this research.

C. Research Instruments