expressed by the main character included in the types of illocutionary act in “American Sniper” movie.
B. Source of data and data object of study
Mack 2005:3 states that the source of data is something that is obtained in the form of textual, such as: audiotapes, videotapes, film, and
field notes. The source of data in this research used by the researcher was
American Sniper movie because the data of this research were taken from the movie.
This research focused on illocutionary act used by the main
character in the movie of “American Sniper”. Thus, the data of this
research were taken from the utterances produced by main character Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” movie. In this research, the researcher’s
object was the American movie entitled “American Sniper” which limited the utterances found in the movie itself. The utterances in the movie were
the ones that included in the type of illocutionary acts.
C. Instrument of the study
The instrument of this research is essential to get the data. The main instrument of this research was the researcher himself. As stated by
Bogdan 1975:29 qualitative research has the natural setting as the direct source of data and the researcher as the key instrument. From the
statement above, the researcher concluded that the instrument of this research was the researcher himself as the major instrument in this
research and had an important role to obtain the data. The researcher used this way because the data of this research was in the form of words. The
researcher gathered and analyzed the data based on the collected data in accordance with the types of illocutionary acts.
The secondary instrument of this research was an observation beside human as key instrument in qualitative research because the
researcher also used field notes to collect and analyze the data in American Sniper movie or Chris Kyle’s utterances in this case. As stated
by Creswell 2009:181 said that qualitative observations are those in which the researcher takes field notes on the behavior and activities of
individuals at the research site.
D. Procedure of collecting data
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