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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Areas of Research
The study concerns on the translation of source texts and targets texts with evaluation of English fictional book titles into its translated version of Indonesian
contexts. It uses the implementation of a functionalist approach to work on its analysis extent. The data are evaluated consisted of 30 English fictional book titles
completed with its Indonesian adaptation titles which are from two different genres, that are thriller for 15fictional titles preceded and 15 romance fictional
book titles. According to Williams and Chesterman 2002: 6, this kind of study is text analysis and translation which functions to analyze the translation strategy
and change or shift between SL and TL applied and its condition of use.
B. Object of the Study
The object of this study was 30 English fictional book titles that had been translated and adapted into Indonesian version; however, it was limited to several
titles which were not word-to-word translation between original title and its translated ones. Since the translatable unit in the form of book titles, therefore
they were in the phrase and sentence forms. The data of fiction titles are a series of romance and thriller bestseller books in TL.
Moreover, in this study, there was a superior role of functionalist approach in which it was an approach that took more scale of space in the study as it had the
counterbalance for the descriptive translation strategy and socio-cultural meaning in analyzing both compared data and findings. That happenedsince a list of titles
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analyzed were far from each other in meaning impressed people who pickedwithout knowing the original names would think the title as it is.Therefore
that was the task of functional approach in which it took concern on the equivalence between ST and TT titles dispersing around analysis viewpoints
related to the work of text called as a good text through terms of Field, Mode and Tenor.
C. Method of the Study
The method taken in analyzing the work was a library research, as to second and complete this study;there is the needs of information, theories and
study related to the topic which would be discussed. The data in this study was primary data in which it was collected by the
researcher who studied the topic and was not taken from other sources. All the primary data were taken from referent books and internet.
D. Research Procedure 1. Type of Data
a. Objective Data
The objective data used in this research are a list of English fictional book titles. There were several fictional titles originally written by Agatha Christie in
thriller. Its number of titles and their Indonesian translation were 14, and the rest of total thriller fictions were the writing of John Fielding. Meanwhile, there are 15
romance English of fictional books titles compiled from several different authors.To note down, the books which are collected as data are merely objects