provide information and knowledge on structure of story by using structural actantial and functional model based on A. J. Greimas’ theory in three stories, The
Validity of Love, Bangles, and Devadasi.
F. Research Methodology
1. Method
The method used in this research is qualitative-descriptive method. By using this method, the writer tries to answer the two questions of the research
above
2. Analysis of Data
In analyzing the data, the writer uses qualitative data analysis method. The data collected will be analyzed by using the structural theory of A. J Greimas. The
steps in analyzing the data are as follows: 1. Identifying actant structure and functional models in these short stories
by reading. 2. Determining the structure of actants by analyzing the action figures in
the story so that it can be determined role as sender, subject, object, opponent, helper and receiver.
3. Arranging functional models through the analysis of movement across a story that consists of three parts, the initial situation, transformation and
the final situation. 4. Identifying the relationship between actants and functional structure
that is in each of story.
3. Instrument of the Research
The research employs the writer herself as the instrument to get the data by collecting the qualitative data about actant and functional structure and also
their relation to others by marking, collecting, giving a notes and reading the text stories repeatedly.
4. Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis that is used in this research is a short story collection book Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi that is published in 2007 by
HarperCollins publisher Inc. In this book there are seven short stories, and the writer only analysis three of them with the same theme, they are The Validity of
Love, Bangles and Devadasi.
5. Time of the Research
This research has been started on January 2011, in English Letters Department, Adab and Humanities Faculty, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic
University Jakarta.
