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DEA agent. Without telling her family and friends, she disguises as a money cleaner for the vicious kingpin which means that her life is in danger.
Unless the narcotics cops can separate the personal from the professional, the bad boys are in danger of blowing the case and endangering Syd’s life in the
process.
C. Research Instruments
There were two instruments used in this research. The first was human instrument which was the main instrument of the research used because the
researcher was the key person in obtaining data from respondents here, the respondents were the characters found in the movies Poggenpoel Myburgh;
2003. It was obtained in order to fulfill the second and the third research questions presented through library study because those research questions had
something to do with the theories of Black English, linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The data found for the second research question presented in
observation checklists covered six major subjects represented the expressions and the linguistics features of the Black English phonology, morphology, syntax, and
semantics used in the movies. The second instrument was document. In order to accomplish the first
research question, the researcher made an observation. It means that the data found presented in table of list of expressions of Black English including its
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functions. Answering the third research question, the researcher used table of lists.
The table of lists covered three major subjects represented the expressions used by the speakers in the conversation, the relationship between the addresser and the
addressee, and the major social factors involved in the conversation e.g. gender, age, power relation, and identity. All the subjects could cover the data needed by
the researcher in doing the research.
D. Data Gathering Technique
In gathering the data needed for the research, the researcher watched the Afro-American movies. She watched ten times for each movie in order to
accurately analyze the data needed for accomplishing the research questions. She watched one by one the movies during her free time on week end. While
watching, she listed the expressions found in the movies then matched the expressions with the movies transcripts, interpreted it into Standard English and
categorized it based on its speech functions.
E. Data Analysis Technique
