THE STRATEGIES OF TRANSLATING NIGHTWING “TERROR AT 2000 FEET” COMIC - UDiNus Repository

CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD

Research method is a systematic work plan in order to make its main purpose
easier to achieve. The method in this research is chosen by considering its
appropriateness the research object. This research method is arranged based on the
problem analyzed and the main purpose of the research. The research method in this
study covers research design, unit of analysis, source of data, techniques of data
collection and techniques of data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
Based on the problem analyzed, this research uses a descriptive qualitative
research. Nawawi in Lusiana (2006:33) states that descriptive method is a research
method to describe the subject or object of the research based on the fact or reality.
Descriptive qualitative means descriptive research. It describes the population and the
evidence of the data systematically, factually, accurately Issac et al in Lusiana
(2006:33).

3.2 Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis of this study is utterance and its translation used in the
comic entitled Nightwing “Terror at 2000 feet”. The data in this thesis are written

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form. The researcher analyzed the translation strategies from 46 utterances and 12
onomatopoeic words of Indonesian translation.

3.3 Source of Data
Every research needs data to help the researcher solve the problems. In this
case, the data were taken from a comic of Nightwing “Terror at 2000 feet” were
written by Peter J.Tomasi ,was first published in May 2008 and was translated into
Indonesian by Eko Yulianto in 2011.

3.4 Techniques of Data Collection
The data of this study were collected by using the following steps:
1. Collecting in two comics, one of them is written in Indonesian (Target
Language) as the translation of one comic written in English (Source
Language).
2. Reading the comics Nightwing “Terror at 2000 Feet”.
3. Reading the translation of the comic Nightwing “Terror at 2000 Feet”.

4. Tabling the words and utterances translated by the translator.

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3.5 Techniques of Data Analysis
The method of data analysis can be stated as follow:
1. Analyzing every utterance of each data.
2. Grouping the data analysis in tables based on the strategies of translation.
3. Analyzing the strategies that the translator applied in the translation work and
the reason why the translators did that.
4. Providing description and arguments of the result of the data analysis.