b. Affective Data
Affective data are taken from the readers, respondents or both. These data might be garnered from the questionnaires, interviews, observation, and focused
group discussion. The survey research was used in this thesis to collect the affective data from
respondent. The data were used to keep validity of the data. People who like reading a novel or short story or prose, especially Edgar Allan Poe‟s work was
chosen to assess the readability of the translation. There were nine respondents that assessed the readability questionnaire. The respondents were the students of
English Letters Department, Sanata Dharma University who were in 8 semesters or year of 2010. Since there were four classes in the year of 2010, 2 students of
each class were selected to assess the questionnaires. One respondent was selected from the tutors of structure class. The respondents were chosen because they have
a good grade of the course in literature and linguistics.
2. Data Collection
The data in this thesis were taken from the text and questionnaires. The data of gothic terms in “The Masque of The Red Death” were chosen as the main
source. The data were taken from all pages in “The Masque of The Red Death” from the whole story randomly. The main data were the words, phrases or
sentences that related with gothic terms. All the gothic terms in “The Masque of The Red Death” and “Setan Merah” were highlighted to help the writer
highligting the data. The data in the sentences that have been highlighted were listed in a column titled source text ST and target text TT. All the data from ST
and TT would be analyzed in the next part. This could be useful in the analysis because the translation of those words and the differences can be seen clearly.
Code Source Text
Code Target Text
3STTMOTRD
The scarlet
stains upon the body
especially upon the face of the victim
were pest ban which shut him out
from the aid and from the sympathy
of this fellow men.
3TTSM
Merah darah
menodai tubuh dan wajah para korban,
seolah menjadi tanda khusus agar
mereka dikucilkan oleh masyarakat
umum, tidak diberi pertolongan sama
sekali.
In which: 3
: The number of data ST
: Source Text TMOTRD : The Masque of The Red Death
TT : Target Text
SM :
“Setan Merah” The data which were collected were also used to assess the the readability of
translation. The questionnaires were open-ended, meaning that the respondent did not only choice some options but also were given opportunity to give comments.
No Code
Target Text Score
1 2
3 1.
1TTSM
Tidak ada wabah penyakit lain yang
lebih fatal
, ataupun
lebih mengerikan
.
Komentar:
Several respondents were chosen to give their score and suggestion or
opinion to each data that was presented in the table.
3. Population and Sample
The population of the data was gothic terms that consist of words, phrases or sentences in Poe‟s works “The Masque of The Red Death” or its translation
“Setan Merah”. From 8 pages in “The Masque of The Red Death”, 37 data that were collected were related to gothic terms. Those data were used to assess the
reada bility and to find the methods applied in translating “The Masque of The
Red Death” into “Setan Merah”. Since there were only 37 data, no samples were taken. All the population were analyzed.
4. Data Analysis
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