D. Objectives of the Study
Based on the research questions above, the writer has several objectives to follow:
1. To find out what kinds of discourse markers are used by David Cameron
in his utterances. 2.
To analyze how do discourse markers contribute toward all the David Cameron‟s utterances.
E. Significance of the Study
The significance of the study is unintended to develop acknowledge of the writer itself. The writer hopes that this research would help readers who are
interested in analysis of discourse markers. The aim is to know and analyze what are words identified as discourse markers. The writer chooses transcript of The
Andrew Marr Show Interview with David Cameron on September 28, 2014 is because in this corpus there are many discourse markers are used by David
Cameron. The writer finds the position of DMs in the sentence there are in initial and medial.
In addition in this study the writer hopes to give a beneficial contribution and relevant reference for the next researcher who will analyze the discourse
markers in the transcript of talk show interview.
F. Research Methodology
1. The Method of Research
In this research, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative research method is in a fact a thriving discipline and while it is
true that some issues have been subject to a lot of, and sometimes heated, discussion, there exists a core set of features that would universally
characterize a properly conducted qualitative study.
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Further, this method is using a verbal data or nonnumeric. Most of data are transformed into various types of texts from recorded interviews,
documents, journals or TV program such as talk show or interview. Unlike quantitative method, this method is more subjective because it is analyzing
phenomenon in daily life depend on how the researcher‟s viewpoint and the aim of qualitative descriptive method is to describe the data with
words. It can represent multiplicity of viewpoints and can offer support to alternative interpretations.
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2. The Technique of Data Collection and Analysis
The analysis of DMs is presented in stages: first, the writer will analyzes each sentence and look for markers are considered as discourse
markers like conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Second, the writer identified all markers that were found in the sentence. And the last,
the writer analyzes types and functions of DMs according to the theory of DMs.
3. The Unit of Analysis
The unit analysis of this study is in transcript of The Andrew Marr Show Interview with David Cameron, MP Conservative Leader on
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Zoltan Dorney, Research Method in Applied Linguistics Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, p.35
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David Nunan. Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992 p.78
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