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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter is about the method of doing the research. It contains of five sections. They are type of the research, data and data sources, research
instruments, data collecting techniques, data analysis techniques and trustworthiness. Firstly, the type of the research is explained followed by the data
and the source of the data. After that, instruments of the research are also described. Then, the data collecting techniques are needed to be clarified; the table
of data sheet is presented. After the ways of collecting the data, data analysis techniques are explained. Last, the trustworthiness of this research closes the
explanation of this chapter.
A. Type of Research
This study is categorized as descriptive qualitative research. According to Bodgan and Binklen 1982:28, descriptive qualitative research concerns
providing description of a phenomenon that occurs naturally without any intervention of an experiment or an artificially contrived treatment.
In line with Bodgan and Binklen, Berg 2001:3 says that a qualitative research refers to meanings, concepts, definitions, characteristics, and descriptions
of things. Then, to analyze the data related to their contexts, the researcher uses content analysis method.
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.
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