Research Design Unit of Analysis Source of Data Technique of Data Collection

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