CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Method of the Study
This thesis uses library research. It means that the data and the sources that are used in this thesis are taken from library and the other written sources. This thesis
is written by using some books as the references and the data that will be analyzed in this thesis are taken from “Harvard Business Review” magazine. The data are about
Sheryl Sandberg’s interview transcript entitled “Now is our time.” The data will be analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method. Djajasudarma 2006:11 states that
qualitative method is a procedure that is resulting descriptive data in the form of written text or spoken in language society.
3.2 Data and Data Source
The data are collected from “Harvard Business Review” magazine. This magazine is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business
Publishing since 1992. It was manufactured in USA. The data that will be analyzed in this thesis are obtained from transcript of an interview named “Now is our time” in
“Harvard Business Review” magazine that was published on April 2013. The magazine is consisted of 148 pages and the data entitled “Now is our time” is on
page 85. This data are about interview transcript of Sheryl Sandberg, the COO Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. This interview transcript was edited by Adi Ignatius.
In this thesis, the data that will be analyzed are only Sheryl Sandberg’s utterances.
3.3 Data Collecting Method
The method that is used in collecting the data is documentation method since the data source is written source. Nawawi 1991:133 states that documentation
method is a technique of collecting data by categorizing and classifying the written
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document that has relation with the problem discussed, whether from document or books, newspaper, magazine, etc.
3.3 Techniques of Data Analysis
In writing this thesis, the systematic techniques that are used in conducting the analysis are as follows:
a. Reading the interview transcript entitled “Now is our time” in “Harvard Business Review” magazine.
b. Selecting the utterances which have direct speech act. c. Selecting the utterances which have indirect speech act.
d. Analyzing the utterances by using related theory to find out type and function of direct speech acts and indirect speech acts.
e. Describing the analysis. f. Concluding the analysis.
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CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
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