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trigger revival of the boy band era Europe who previously had triumphed in the 1990s.
2.6 Previous Studies
Some researches on affixation were conducted by some other researchers before. Setia 2005 conducted a research on affixation in his thesis
entitled A Morphological Study on the Suffixation of Verbs Used in President George W. Bushs Speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 7, 2002. In his study,
he did not analyze all kinds of affix and he just analyzed one kind of affix, it was suffixes
. He analyzed about kinds and functions of the suffixes used in
President George W. Bushs Speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 7, 2002. He found four kinds of suffixes were used in his study namely class-changing -al,
denoting persons -er, frequent Representation -ly, and native origin. The other researcher who studied affixation was Heniva 2008. She
conducted a research on affixation entitled Affixation Used in the English Translation of Sahih Bukhari by Muhsin Khan. In her study, she analyzed one
kind of affix, it was suffixes -ation and the process of affixation that were used in Translation of Sahih Bukhari by Muhsin Khan.
Related to this study, there is a difference between this study and those previous studies. The difference is in the object of the study. The object of this
study is One Direction songs. Moreover, this research focuses on the affixation applied in
where do broken heart go, ready to run, fool’s gold, they don’t know about us, I wish, olivia, illusion, diana, temporary fix, and I want
. It becomes
the unique one that differentiates to the previous studies were there.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter presents the research method and the procedures designed to answer the research problems. The discussion includes: the research design, data
sources, research instrument, data collection, data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
In order to find the answer of the research problems, the descriptive qualitative method is used in this study. One of the reasons for using this
method is because the data of this research is in the form of words that is not statistically analyzed but the data will be classified into some groups based on
a certain standard or norm. Descriptive research is non hypothesis research, so in the research
procedure, it does not need hypothesis Arikunto, 1998:245. It means the method is intended to make a systematic and accurate description concerning
the fact and the features of research data. This research is accumulation of basic data in descriptive way, not explains about correlation or hypothesis
testing. It means that descriptive studies are designed to obtain information that concerns the status of phenomena. They are directed toward determining
the nature of situation, as existing at the time of study. By using this method, the writer would like to collect, arrange and
analyze the affixatio n in One Direction‟s songs.
