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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
3.1 Research Design
This final project is investigating the grammatical equivalence found in novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling as source text comparing
with the Indonesian version by Listiana Srisanti as the target text and the potential problems occur in the translating process. The analysis tells about how the
grammatical categories in the original text translated into Indonesian and what problems may occur.
This research designed as qualitative research is a research on translation result. As pointed out by Pawito 2007: 37, a qualitative research method is not
based on empirical evidences of mathematical logic, calculation principals, or statistical analysis techniques, but it is more based on discursively things. Pawito
2007: 49 then adds that qualitative methodology more focuses on data of understanding efforts and or descriptive. This data then analyzed and interrupted
so that the researcher could draw conclusion.
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3.2 Object of the Study
This study aims at analyzing the grammatical equivalence in sentences. Grammatical equivalence divided into five categories; they are number, gender,
person, tense and aspect, and voice. The data were taken from the seventh Harry Potter’s novel by Joanne Kathleen Rowling entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows which is published by Bloomsbury in the year 2007. It is translated by Listiana Srisanti entitled Harry Potter dan Relikui Kematian and is published by
PT. Gramedia in Jakarta in the year 2008.
3.3 Method of Collecting Data
In this final project, documentation method is used to collect sufficient data. The documentation method is employed as the data in the form of printed texts: the
English and Indonesian version of the novel. The novel has 36 chapters. The data taken for the analysis were sentences which are limited to sentences of the first
chapter. There are altogether 449 sentences, which consist of 223 English sentences and 226 Indonesian sentences.
3.4 Method of Analyzing Data
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