Type of Research Data Collection

CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 Type of Research

In this thesis, I employed qualitative-descriptive method. Qualitative research is required to take place in a natural setting. It means no planned instruction in taking the data. Moreover, qualitative research tends to look for a holistic view of a phenomenon. Darlington and Dorothy 2002 suggest that qualitative research is especially relevant in obtaining culturally specific information about the value, opinion, behavior, and social context of particular populations. This kind of research tends to look for a holistic view of a phenomenon.

3.2 Data Collection

In collecting the data, I utilized documentation method since I downloaded videos from YouTube and then I made orthographic transcripts of the presidential debates as the data for my research. However, I did not focus on pause, silent, false starts and overlappings. Moreover, I used observation technique as I was not involved in the data occurrence. There are five episodes of Indonesia Presidential Debate 2014. However, I chose 4 out of 5 Indonesia Presidential debates in 2014 from YouTube. Table 3.1. The Debate List of Presidential Debate No Theme The Participants 1 “Pembangunan Demokrasi, Pemerintahan yang Bersih dan Kepastian Hukum ” broadcasted on 9th June 2014 on SCTV, Indosiar and TV One Prabowo-Hatta and Jokowi-JK 2 “Pembangunan Ekonomi dan Kesejahteraan Sosial ” on 15th June 2014 on Metro TV dan Bloomberg TV Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo 3 “Politik Internasional dan Ketahanan Nasional ” on 22nd June 2014 on TV One and ANTV. Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo 4 “Pembangunan Sumber Daya Manusia dan Iptek” on 29th June 2014 on RCTI, MNCTV dan Global TV Hatta Rajasa and Jusuf Kalla 5 “Pangan, Energi, Lingkungan” on TVRI dan Kompas TV on 5th July 2014 Prabowo-Hatta and Jokowi-JK The reason why I chose 4 debates was because I only analyzed president candidates’ utterances. In the 4 th debate, the participants were only between the vice president candidates only. I also employed purposive sampling in selecting the data because analyzing spoken discourse is very complicated and I would need to choose which ones were the core of the answers of the question asked. I also collected additional information through library research to enrich the points of views about politics, argument and debate.

3.3 Method of Data Analysis