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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of the Research
This study employs descriptive-qualitative research. According to Seliger and Shohamy 1989:116 descriptive qualitative research are concerned with
providing description of phenomena that occur naturally without any intervention of an experiment or an artificially contrived treatment. The phenomena that are
being studied in this study are the types of culturally-bound expressions, the foreignization and domestication strategies to translate the culturally-bound
expressions, and the degree of meaning equivalence of the translated culturally- bound expressions found in House of Glass. However, quantitative data might
present in this research, it is because this research also employs a little bit number to support the analysis of the data.
This study aims at analyzing the types of culturally-bound expressions found in Pramoedya Ananta Toer
’s Rumah Kaca, the foreignization and domestication strategies used by the translator to translate the culturally-bound
expressions, and the degree of meaning equivalence of the culturally-bound expressions in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Rumah Kaca and their translated
expressions in Max Lane’s House of Glass.
B. Data and Data Sources
The sources of the data are the novel Rumah Kaca by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and its English translation House of Glass translated by Max Lane. Rumah
Kaca was first published in 1988 by Hasta Mitra publisher. However, the researcher used the novel which is published by Lentera Dipantara publisher in
2006. The novel consists of 14 chapters in 646 pages. Meanwhile, the English translation which is entitled House of Glass was published in 1996 by Penguin
Books. It contains 14 chapters in 365 pages. This novel was first published in 1992 by Penguin Books Australia Ltd.
In this study, the data were the culturally-bound expressions found in Pramoedya Ananta Toer
’s Rumah Kaca and their translated expressions in Max Lane
’s House of Glass. The unit of data was in the form of words, phrases, and clauses. The expressions which are repeatedly mentioned with the same meaning
in TT were only taken one time. However, it was relisted when the expressions have different meaning.
C. Instruments of the Research
According to Moleong 2014:168 the researcher plays an important role, so, the main instrument of the research is the researcher himself as the planner, the
data collector, the data analyst, and the reporter of the result. The second instrument is the table of analysis which is used to record and classify the data.
Following is the example of the table of analysis
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