CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter discusses about the Research Design, Unit of Analysis, Source of Data, Technique of Data Collection and Technique of Data Analysis
3.1 Research Design
In this research, the researcher used descriptive method. Descriptive method is the method which the purpose is to describe systematically, factually and accurately
Issac and Michel, 1987: 18. This means that the researcher, in this research, described the syntactical rank-shift in the story books The Mummy with No Name by
Geronimo Stilton and its translation Mumi Tanpa Nama by Tanti Susilawati by clasifying and analyzing those types.
3.2 Unit of Analysis
In this study, the researcher focused on the words, phrases, clauses and sentences in the source language of the book The Mummy With No Name by
Geronimo Stilton 119 pages and its translation Mumi Tanpa Nama by Tanti Susilawati 127 pages, then analyzed them all into syntactical rank-shift types.
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3.3 Source of Data
Data are very important to do a research. Source of data is the subject where the data are found in the research Arikunto, 2002: 107. The data used in this
research were taken from the story book entitled The Mummy with No Name by Geronimo Stilton and its Indonesian version Mumi Tanpa Nama by Tanti Susilawati.
The English story book was published in New York in 2006 while the Indonesian version was published in Jakarta in 2011.
3.4 Technique of Data Collection
To collect the data, the researcher uses the following steps: a.
Selecting The researcher chose the books entitled The Mummy with No Name by Geronimo
Stilton and its translation, Mumi Tanpa Nama by Tanti Susilawati. b.
Reading the data from the books carefully. c.
Choosing the pages that would be used as data samples. d.
Finding the words, phrases, sentences and clauses which are included into syntactical rank-shift types both in Indonesian and English version.
3.5 Technique of Data Analysis
