Source of Data Data Collecting Procedure

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH

In order to make this research systematically and scientifically, there would be a method which is going to be applied as the way to guarantee the validity of the data and the findings as well. Due to the fact the research method which is genuinely designed in writing this study is library research method. Library research method is defined as a method which is ultimately aimed to collect related data and theories from books, digital media, or other manuscripts. After collecting the data which is necessary to do this research, the elaboration is commenced by utilizing the method called descriptive qualitative method. Through this method this research would be able to seek, collect, classify, analyze, and draw an ultimate conclusion.

3.1 Source of Data

The data presented in this analysis are the texts from Sony Ericsson W150i Yendo Edition’s userguide. As the purpose of this analysis to find the translation procedures in this userguide book, then this research would present texts in both languages, English as the original or source language and then Bahasa Indonesia as the target language.

3.2 Data Collecting Procedure

In doing the data collecting procedure this research investigates both of the English and Bahasa Indonesia version of the user guide and the user guide e-book has been available as a hard copy directly from the Sony Ericsson online User guide site and then the writer collected them as the research data. The process of collecting all necessary data could be summarized as below: 1. Reading the complete transcript of Sony Ericsson W150i’s user guide in English SL and Bahasa Indonesia TL. 2. Dividing the text into a set of clauses. 3. Identifying words and phrases which are indicated as information technology terms. 4. Selecting some words and phrases which are indicated as information technology terms. 17 5. Listing those words and phrases which are indicated as information technology terms as the data findings and categorize the IT terms according to the procedures used to translate them from SL to TL. 3.3 Data Analysis Method As stated previously that in analyzing the data findings, this research sets a method named qualitative descriptive which can be defined as a method aimed to describe a research subject based on some data which are derived from the researched objects and this is not aimed as the examination of a particular hypothesis. Regarding that case, there are some steps which are done to complete this analysis. They are: 1. Identifying the equivalence translation of information technology terms between Source Language and Target Language in Sony Ericsson’s userguide. 2. Explaining the procedures of translation in translating information technology terms from SL to TL in Sony Ericsson’s userguide. 3. Contrasting the words and phrases of information technology terms in SL and its translation result in TL in order to figure out the procedures of translation used in it. 4. Identifying the procedures of translation used to translate information technology terms from SL to TL in Sony Ericsson’s userguide. 18

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS, DESCRIPTION AND FINDING