B. Data and Source of Data
The main data are the idiomatic expressions in the English text and their translations in the Bahasa Indonesia subtitling text. Meanwhile, the supporting
data are sentences served as data contexts and support their meanings. The data sources of the research are the script of the movie for English text and the subtitle
of the movie for the Bahasa Indonesia text. The script is obtained from: http:www.springfieldspringfield.co.ukmovie_script.php?movie=iron-man-3
and the subtitle is taken from an original VCD of
Iron Man 3
2013 movie.
C. Research Instruments
To record and classify data, the researcher applied data sheets in collecting the data. Some dictionaries of idioms are used to identify the
occurrences of idiomatic expressions and to find out their meanings. Those dictionaries are
Dictionary of English Idioms
by Richard A. Spears published by Penerbit Erlangga and two electronic dictionaries:
English Idiom Dictionary,
by Kreatorz Wiktionary and
Idioms and Phrases Dictionary
by Buffalo Software. However, the researcher himself served as the key instrument since he
recorded, analyzed, and described the research data as the process of qualitative research. It is based on the statement that the characteristic of the qualitative
research is that the research uses human being or the researcher himself as the main instrument of the research Mulyana, 2002:158.
D. Data Collecting Techniques
The techniques of data collection of this research used several steps. First, the researcher watched the movie to see the phenomena of the research, while
reading the transcript of English text and their Bahasa Indonesia subtitling text. Then, he identified all English idiomatic expressions and their translations as main
data. After that, the researcher compared the data and made the data sheet to categorize the data classification based on the realization of meaning. Then, he put
the classified data with special numbers and codes. In classifying the data and their codes, the researcher applied the categorization based on the degree of
meaning equivalence as follows. a.
High 1
Complete Meaning Comp b.
Medium 1
Increased Meaning Inc 2
Decreased Meaning Dec c.
Low 1
Different Meaning Diff 2
Zero Meaning Zero
The last step was analyzing the data based on research procedures. Firstly, the researcher classified and analyzed the data in terms of realization of
meaning. After that, he analyzed the data in terms of meaning equivalence. Then, he made some conclusions and judgments based on the analysis.
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