Type of Research Form of Data, Context of Data, and Source of Data

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter describes the method of the research, including the type of research, form, context, and source of data, research instrument, techniques of data collection and data analysis, and data trustworthiness.

A. Type of Research

This research used descriptive qualitative method because the purpose of the research is not to predict the result, but to describe a phenomenon Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009: 167. Qualitative research is closely related to descriptive method that can explain more about the feeling or the process beyond the problem than other conventional methods. Therefore, to interpret the data, qualitative method is necessary to use. According to Strauss and Corbin 1998: 11, qualitative research is completed not by means of quantification or statistical technique. Moreover, qualitative method can give complex detail about particular phenomena that are difficult to be expressed through quantitative method Strauss and Corbin, 1998: 11. Nevertheless, few quantitative results can be used to obtain some details through interpretation. Thus, qualitative was chosen as the appropriate method because it represented what the researcher had studied. Qualitative method does not prove something right or wrong, but explains the reason behind the problem. Moreover, giving point of view from experiences and knowledge obtained is what the researcher tried to do in making the thesis. Therefore, the result might differ from one person to other because of external factors, such as culture, religion, and childhood experience influencing the research process.

B. Form of Data, Context of Data, and Source of Data

Qualitative research can be analyzed using verbal and nonverbal data. Verbal data can be found in utterances spoken by speakers, while nonverbal data can be seen through gestures, facial expression, tone, and physical contact between speakers Bousfield, 2008: 15. Nonverbal happens at the same time with verbal data. However, this thesis only focuses on verbal data. Therefore, the forms of the data were utterances spoken by the characters in the Modern Family Season 1 TV series, while the contexts of the data were dialogues containing interruptions. The sources of this research were the transcript of the dialogues spoken by the characters in Modern Family Season 1 and the video of the series. The transcript was not made by the researcher but she took it from a reliable internet source. Moreover, in the research, not all episodes within Season 1 were examined but only six episodes.

C. Instruments of the Research