1.5 Research Method
Research method is the scientific procedures which are very important in order t
o get the research’s validity. This undergraduate thesis uses qualitative method. Qualitative method is a means for exploring and understanding the
meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem. The process of research involves emerging questions and procedures, data typically collected
in the participant’s setting, data analysis, inductively building from particulars to general themes, and the researcher making interpretations of the meaning of the
data John Creswell : 2009 :4. The research of this undergraduate thesis was done by applying a library
research and the data source was selected by doing online data research on the internet. The online data research obtains the online movie which is relevant to the
objective of this undergraduate thesis. The research method in this study consists of three components such as: data source, method and technique of collecting
data, and method and technique of analyzing data.
1.5.1 Data Source
Data source is sources where we can obtain the data which is relevant to the topic of this study. Since the topic of this study is pragmatics and it is concerned
with speech acts, it cannot be separated from the language used in communication especially written language. It will be more suitable if the data is taken from
written text in this case movie script. The data of this undergraduate thesis is taken
from the movie script Divergent. The movie script Divergent was obtained by doing browsing on the internet.
The dialogues in the movie are the sources of the data and taken as the samples of conversations which contain illocutionary acts. This data is selected
because in the movie Divergent there are some parts which contain utterances that are suitable with this undergraduate thesis’s topic. The sample dialogues in this
study are the dialogues that can be classified as the illocutionary acts.
1.5.2 Method and Technique of Collecting Data
In this undergraduate thesis, the method of collecting data is library research. In library research, there are no respondents or informants to be involved
in this undergraduate thesis. The movie script was obtained by doing browsing on the internet in movie script website. The data was collected in order to find out the
kinds of illocutionary acts and its context of situation in movie Divergent. The techniques of collecting data in this study are watching, reading and note taking.
First, the data was collected by watching the movie and finding out the illocutionary act by reading the movie script from the downloaded document
carefully. Then, it was followed by paying attention to its context of situation. If there is something important, those important data were noted down. After all the
data were recorded, the data which have been gathered as the data source will be analyzed in the next chapter to be classified into the type of illocutionary acts.
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