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C. Data Source
The data source of this research was a movie titled He’s Just Not That into
You where the story is about four different couples who had the different perception of their relationship. The Hollywood movie which was directed by Ken Kwapis was
released in 2009. This American romantic comedy-drama movie was adapted from Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillos best-selling self-help book with the same title,
He’s Just Not That into You.
The researcher chose one of the couples, Gigi Ginnifer Goodwin and Alex Justin Long who are the central characters of the movie. Gigi is the representation
of a woman who has a feminine character while Alex is the representation of a man who has a masculine character. The researcher analyzed the way of how they
communicate each to other in some scenes of the movie. Here the researcher also realized one of the things that can create
misunderstanding in direct communication which is the difference of characteristic from every gender. That is why the researcher analyzed which part of their
conversational styles which lead Gigi and Alex to get misunderstanding. The researcher chose
He’s Just Not That into You movie as the subject of this research because the story is representing the social phenomena which happened in our
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D. Data Gathering Technique
There are some steps in gathering the data of this research. First, the researcher downloaded
He’s Just Not that into You movie in YouTube. Second, the researcher
selected Alex’s and Gigi’s conversations in some scenes from the transcript version of this movie so that the researcher
could classify Alex and Gigi’s conversations into some scenes easily. Third, the researcher made the observation
checklist in the form of tables. By using the observation checklist, the researcher could identify Alex and Gigi’s conversations.
E. Data Analysis Technique
The technique of analyzing the data was done in some steps. Firstly, the researcher observed the videos of
He’s Just Not That into You movie in some scenes. The scenes which have been chosen were representing how the characters, Alex and
Gigi use conversational style. For the second step, the researcher analyzed the dialogue of the characters which has been selected previously in the form of a
transcript. The two research questions which had been formulated would be connected to
the researcher’s analysis. That had to be done in order to answer the research questions.
In this step, the researcher made an observation checklist in the form of a table see Table 3.1. The researcher identified Alex
’s and Gigi’s conversations in He’s Just Not That into You movie into certain conversational styles. After completing the
observation checklist, the researcher classified which conversational styles that used PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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explanation related to the Table 3.1 and Table 3.2 will be elaborated further.
Table 3.1 Observation Checklist
Abbreviations Q
: Qualifiers SW
: Swear Words
CT : Controlling the Topics
CR : Compound Requests
VF : Verbal Fillers
TQ : Tag Question s
Is : Intensifiers
Qs : Questions
Ip : Interruptions
TD : Talk Domination
O : Overlapping
S : Silence
The table above shows the observation checklist that used by the researcher to analyze the conversational style of Alex and Gigi in
He’s Just Not That into You movie. There are possible conversational styles that used by Alex and Gigi in their
conversations, consist of qualifiers, controlling the topics, verbal fillers, intensifiers, interruptions, overlapping, swear words, compound requests, tag questions,
questions, talk domination, and silence. The researcher identified Alex’s and Gigi’s
utterances that represent those possible conversational styles.
No. Speaker
Conversational Style Cases Conversational Style
Q CT
VF Is
SW CR
TQ Qs
Ip O TD
S
1. A
“I think, she is a good girl.”
2.
A
“Nice day, isn’t it?”
3.
A
“Well, I’m glad to see you again.”
4.
A
Could you please send me your letter?
5.
A
“Hey Stuart Stop making an ass out of yourself
”
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