Data Source Research Method

from the movie script Divergent. The movie script Divergent was obtained by doing browsing on the internet. The dialogues in the movie are the sources of the data and taken as the samples of conversations which contain illocutionary acts. This data is selected because in the movie Divergent there are some parts which contain utterances that are suitable with this undergraduate thesis’s topic. The sample dialogues in this study are the dialogues that can be classified as the illocutionary acts.

1.5.2 Method and Technique of Collecting Data

In this undergraduate thesis, the method of collecting data is library research. In library research, there are no respondents or informants to be involved in this undergraduate thesis. The movie script was obtained by doing browsing on the internet in movie script website. The data was collected in order to find out the kinds of illocutionary acts and its context of situation in movie Divergent. The techniques of collecting data in this study are watching, reading and note taking. First, the data was collected by watching the movie and finding out the illocutionary act by reading the movie script from the downloaded document carefully. Then, it was followed by paying attention to its context of situation. If there is something important, those important data were noted down. After all the data were recorded, the data which have been gathered as the data source will be analyzed in the next chapter to be classified into the type of illocutionary acts.

1.5.3 Method and Technique of Analyzing Data

After the all the data were collected, it needs to be analyzed using method and technique of analyzing data. The descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze the collected data source in this study. The analysis in this undergraduate thesis is descriptive analysis which describes the data based on certain theory. Meanwhile, the data can be categorized as qualitative data because the data and analysis is in the form of word and sentence and it not contains any statistic or numbers form. The data source needs to be analyzed using descriptive qualitative method to make the data described as clear as possible. The collected data was analyzed based on the theories which are related to the undergraduate thesis. The first step is classified the utterances found in the movie Divergent to the appropriate illocutionary acts’ types. After classifying basic types of illocutionary acts found in the movie script Divergent, the data was classified by using speech act theories according to Searle 1976 whether they were considered as representatives, directives, commisives, expressives or declaratives illocutionary acts. Next step was to analyze the intended meaning of the utterances and find out the context of situation which supports the participants in those dialogues by using the context of situation proposed by Halliday 1985.

1.5.4 Method and Technique of Presenting Analysis

This undergraduate thesis used descriptive qualitative methods in presenting the analysis. In order to answer the problems in this study, first the data was classified into the types of illocutionary acts based on a theory proposed by Searle