B. Approach of the Study
In order to identify the distribution of adverbial phrases and the significance of them to the story, the writer used stylistic approach. Stylistics is the
study of style in language. Leech states that “literary stylistics has, implicitly or
explicitly, the goal of explaining the relation between language and artistic function
” 1981: 13. Thus, stylistics can be used to identify the linguistic expression and description to find out why the author here describe his story in this
certain way. This approach is used to analyze the data from the short story. The data is the adverbial phrases in the short story. Foregrounding and representation theory
are appropriate to conduct this study to ascertain the importance of the adverbial phrases in the story.
C. Method of the Study
1. Data Collection
In this study, the writer employs population study for collecting the data. Population study
is the most suitable method in collecting the data in Poe’s The Tell-Tale Hear. Population study here means the data collected share similar
characteristics, and in this study, the population are adverbial phrases. However, the population is too wide, thus the writer narrows this study and take adjunct
phrases as the sample population. Population study is the most suitable because this method can be used to draw conclusions that will apply to the entire population.
The thorough reading is essential in order to identify the adverbial phrases attached in the story. After reading the whole story, the writer collected all adverbs in forms
of words and phrases. After that, the writer chose the adverbs to be analyzed based PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
on grammatical function that most often occurs in the story. Based on the occurrences, the adjunct outnumbered another grammatical function, such as
disjunct and conjunct. After that, the writer classified the adverbial phrases based on their distribution. After that, the writer preceded the analysis on all of the
adverbial phrases.
2. Data Analysis
In order to understand the distribution, the writer classified the adverbial phrases in the story based on the theories mentioned above. The purpose of this
analysis was to identify the distribution of adverbial phrases used by the author. The grammatical function of adverbs and semantic roles of adverb can be used to
classify the distribution of adverbial phrases used in the story. The results of this analysis are presented in tables based on their position and types of adverb. The
followings are examples of the tables that will be used in analysis: Table 1. The Distribution of Adverbial Phrases Based on the Position
Initial Position Middle Position
Final Position Total
Table 2. The Distribution of Adverbial Phrases Based on Types of Adverb Grammatical Function Semantic
Role Total
Table 3. Types of Adverbial Phrases and the Occurrences in Three Positions Position
Types Initial
Position Middle
Position Final
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