CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
This chapter deals with the method of collecting and analyzing the data. It comprises type of research, research strategy, data collection, and data processing
along with data analysis. A clearer elaboration and explanation on each point are given as follows:
3.1 Type of Research
This study applied qualitative research. It was applied because the data of this research were in the form of texts especially the utterances of the female
characters in the movie. There were no statistical data used in this study. This case is in line with Mack
ey and Gass‟s idea which states that “the term qualitative research can be taken to refer to research that is based on descriptive data that
does not make regular use of statistical procedures” 2005:162. In addition, the analysis was in the form of description as the result of interpretation as how it is
supported by Denscombe 2007:248 that “qualitative research tends to be associated with description”.
3.2 Research Strategy
This research applied documentary research strategy. It focused on internet-based data collection. This strategy was applied because it offered the
effectiveness and easiness in gathering and collecting the data. The data of this research were collected and obtained through the internet. Besides, the application
of this strategy is because its accessibility. According to Denscombe 2007:230,
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“Probably the greatest attraction of using documentary sources is their accessibility. To get hold of the material the researcher needs
only to visit the library or go online via a home comp uter”.
Based on the easiness of the accessibility which provides a cost-effective method of getting data and a source of data which is permanent and available in a form
that can be checked by others, this strategy was applied.
3.3 Data Collection
The technique of collecting data in this present study applied purposive sampling. According to Denscombe 2007 purposive sampling technique can be
applied when the researchers already have a view and know about particular events or people and selects specific one because they believe that this event or
people will be critical for the research. This technique was used to focus on particular characteristics of the data that are of interest. The data were in the form
of movie subtitles accessed and downloaded from http:www.yifysubtitles.com
. After getting the subtitles as the data, then this study applied purposive sampling
to choose dialogues which are only uttered by Clarisse and Annabeth as the female characters to be grouped into clauses. The total utterances Clarisse of
consisted of 95 utterances, while Annabeth‟s utterances consisted of 150
utterances. In order to make it balance to the total utterances of Clarisse, then this research applied stratified random sampling toward Annabeth utterances.
According to Mackey and Gass, “Stratified random sampling provides precision
in terms of the representativeness of the sample and allows preselected characteristics to be used as variables”. After stratified random sampling was
applied, then the total utterances of Annabeth are 95 utterances. In addition, to answer the last question of this research, it also too
k Percy‟s utterances to be compared to the female characters‟. The same as Clarisse and Annabeth, 95
utterances of Percy were collected to be the data of this research. These utterances Clarisse, Annabeth and Percy
‟s utterances were the data of this present study.
3.4 Data Processing