Theoretical Framework REVIEW OF LITERATURE
locative preposition at, in, and on. Next, the data were collected in the tables with certain coding to make it easier to refer to certain datum.
The affective data were gathered from the questionnaires of the back translation method. The present research involves four respondents coded as R1,
R2, R3, and R4. To gather the affective data, the locative preposition at, in, and on in both of the Indonesian translation and the result of the back translation
method were highlighted and collected in tables which are grouped based on the
data’s SLT1 preposition. 3.
Population and Sample
The population of this study is the locative preposition at, in, and on found
in the Ernest Hemingway’s short stories titled “The Capital of the World”,
“Soldier’s Home”, “The Undefeated”, and “The Light of the World”. Total population of the data is 138 data points with 28 data points of locative
preposition at, 61 data points of locative preposition in, and 49 data points of locative preposition on. Out of the total population, 21 data which best represent
the whole population are purposely and proportionally selected using the sampling method proposed by Widodo in Cerdik Menyusun Proposal Penelitian.
Proportional sampling method used in the data population that has the equal classification 2012: 58, in this case, all of the three subgroups contain three
different locative prepositions that become the focus of the present research. 4.
Data Analysis
The analysis of the data includes the analysis of the Source Text and the Target Text. To answer the first formulated problem of the present research, the
data containing the locative preposition at, in, and on and its translation are collected and grouped based on what locative preposition is contained in the data.
The grouped data which are still in the full sentences are then specified into a table that only contains the locative prepositions, object preceding the locative
preposition, object following the locative preposition, the meaning of the locative preposition, and the Indonesian translation of the locative preposition.
Table 1. Example of the Meaning and the Indonesian Translation of Locative Preposition
at
Number of data Object
precedin g the
prepositi on
Prepo sition
Object following
the preposition
Meaning Indonesian
translation of the
preposition 13STAt530
alone at
a small table
Dimension -type 0
di 93STAt21193
the match
at the bull
Dimension -type 0
pada 111STAt22200
one at
each side Dimension
-type 0 -
130STAt25293 that town
at one end
Dimension -type 0
dari 133STAt27293
down at
the station Dimension
-type 0 ke
The table has the function to show the meaning of the locative preposition related to its “environment” or the words that come before and after the locative
preposition and to show the translation of the locative preposition in Indonesian. The Indonesian translation of the locative preposition is then presented in
the form of a table which becomes the result of the translation variations of the locative prepositions in Indonesian.