CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This section illustrates method used in this research. It deals with 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 the short story of Agatha Christie Regatta Mystery and the Indonesian translation Misteri Regatta translated by
Widya Kirana as the object of the analysis. Based on the analysis, the researcher used qualitative method and the approach is descriptive. The aim of the research is
to find out the types of person deixis in the short story Regatta Mystery by Agatha Christie, how person deixis are translated into target language, and also to find
politeness strategies used to translate person deixis.
3.2 Unit of Analysis
In this research, the researcher would like to analyze the utterances containing person deixis in source text and also target text to find out the types of
person deixis in the short story Regatta Mystery by Agatha Christie, how person deixis are translated into Indonesian language by Widya Kirana, and also to find
politeness strategies used to translate person deixis.
3.3 Source of Data
The source of data which was used in this research is a short story of Agatha Christie Regatta Mystery as the original text. This short story was
published for the first time in Strand Magazine in 1936. Regatta Mystery belongs to a novel entitled Problem at Pollensa Bay which contains eight stories but in
this research, the researcher chose to analyze the fifth story only, Regatta Mystery. This has been translated into Indonesian by Widya Kirana with the title is Misteri
Regatta, published by PT Gramedia in 2011 for the fifth edition.
3.4 Technique of Data Collection
Before analyzing the data, the researcher collected the data as the media of doing this research. Thus, the researcher did the following steps to get the data:
1. Searching the data from source text and target text. The researcher searched
the data in a book store.
2. Choosing the appropriate data. In this research the researcher used Regatta
Mystery, a short story from Agatha Christie because the utterances in the story contain person deixis and use politeness strategies. Then, the data of this
research were gathered from the utterances in the short story of Agatha Christie Regatta Mystery and the Indonesian translation Misteri Regatta.
3.5 Technique of data Analysis