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CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
Azwar 1997: 1 says “Penelitian merupakan rangkaian kegiatan ilmiah dalam rangka pemecahan suatu permasalahan. It means that research is a set of
scientific activities in order to solve a problem.
3.1 Research Design
In this analysis, library research is used. Library research is applied by consulting the relevant theories to support the analysis from text books, dictionary
and thesis. Nawawi 1991: 30 states “Penelitian kepustakaan dilakukan dengan menghimpun data dari berbagai literatur, baik di perpustakaan maupun tempat
lain” The library research is carried out by accumulating all the data from many
various literature, whether in the library or any other places. 3.2
Source of Data
The data of this analysis is taken from Amiri Baraka’s essay titled “I will not apologize, I will not resign”. The supporting data is taken from related books and
websites. 3.3
Data Collecting Procedures
Azwar 1997: 36 states in his book “Metode Penelitian” :
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“Data penelitian dikumpulkan baik lewat instrumen pengumpulan data, observasi, maupun lewat data dokumentasi”. Data yang dikumpulkan
mungkin berupa data primer, data sekunder, atau keduanya.” It means that the data for research can be collected from both research
instruments, observation, and documents. Data which is collected can be primary, secondary, or both of them. In analyzing data, written method is used. In this
analysis, the data is secondary data, they are kinds of meaning properties and meaning relations found in the source of data, which is a document, essay by Amiri
Baraka titled “I will not apologize, I will not resign”.
3.4 Data Analysis
In this analysis, qualitative descriptive research method is used. In descriptive research, the data tabulation is based on analyzing percentage and trend analysis.
These are the procedure of analyzing the source of data : a. Reading the text of essay from Amiri Baraka titled “I will not apologize, I
will not resign” b. Identifying the meaning properties based on Leech theory and meaning
relations based on Saeed theory found in the source of data. c. Collecting the data
d. Classifying the data e. Analyzing the data by the rules of analyzing itself.
f. Calculating the data to find the dominant kind of meaning properties and meaning relations found in the source of data by this formula
Meaning properties and meaning relations found in percentage
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=
∑
X 100
n = number of each kind of both meaning properties relations
∑n = number of all both meaning properties relations found
g. And the last step is making conclusion and suggestion
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CHAPTER IV DESCRIPTION AND FINDING
4.1 Data description
4.1.1 Meaning Properties
4.1.1.1 Meaningfulness
In order to be meaningful, an expression must obey the Semantic rules of the language as obeying only the syntactic rule cannot end up with
meaningful expression and must represent their meaning.
1. The recent dishonest, consciously distorted and insulting non- interpretation
of my poem,
Som ebody Blew Up Am erica
by the Anti-Defamation League, is fundamentally an attempt to defame me. Sentence 1
The sentence above is meaningfulness because the main idea of this sentence can be easily recognized, and it does not reflect another meaning. It
has no characteristics of anomaly and ambiguity. The existence of this expression is to state that there is an effort to defame Amiri by using his
poem. The type of sentence is compound sentence. 2.
This trashy propaganda is characteristic of right-wing zealots who are interested only in slander and character assassination of those whose views
or philosophies differ from or are in contradiction to theirs. Sentence 3 The sentence above is meaningfulness because the main idea of this
sentence can be easily recognized, and it does not reflect another meaning. It has no characteristics of anomaly and ambiguity. The existence of this
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