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2.2 Information Technology Terms
Stands for Information Technology, and is pronounced I.T. It refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the
people that work with these technologies. Many companies now have IT departments for managing the computers, networks, and other technical areas of their businesses. IT jobs include
computer programming, network administration, computer engineering, Web development, technical support, and many other related occupations. Since we live in the information age,
information technology has become a part of our everyday lives. That means the term IT, already highly overused, is here to stay.
And below provided some examples related to IT terms found in the Sony Ericsson W150i’s user guidebook and being categorized in 6 categories :
Term Category
Adapter Hardware
Alert Box Software
Algorithm Software
Animated GIF File Formats
Antivirus Software
Application Software
Banner Ad Internet
Binary Technical
Bit Bits and Bytes
Blog Internet
Bounce Internet
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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.
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