The types of Research Research Strategy Data Collection

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CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter describes some research methods used in this study. Research method is a procedure how to conduct a research and the strategy to assist the researcher in achieving the aim of the research. This chapter consists of research strategy, data collection, data processing, and data analysis.

3.1 The types of Research

The type of research in this study is qualitative. This research is considered as qualitative because it analyzes and describes the utterances of the two main characters in Titanic movie, Jack and Rose. They are called qualitative data because they are not ordinarily expressed in quantitative forms, or, numerical forms Blaxter, 1997:60. Qualitative data are data that are in the form of words. Qualitative data are stated in form of sentence. “Qualitative research tends to be associated with words or images as the unit of analysis ” Denscombe, 2007:257. The qualitative method is applied in this research as it is needed to analyze the data in the form of text. It is used to identify the types and the functions of illocutionary acts occur in Jack and Rose’s conversations in Titanic movie.

3.2 Research Strategy

The documentary study is preferred as the strategy applied in this research. This strategy is preferred because the data used as the object in this research are in the form of written text. Blaxter et al 1997:187 states that by abstracting each document, the documentary study will be processed. 20 Therefore, in this study, each data are categorized into their respective groups. The utterances of Jack and Rose are classified depending on the existence of illocutionary act. Furthermore, internet-based research is also provided to enrich the data. It is a movie script that is downloaded from a website http:www.imsdb.comscriptsTitanic.html.

3.3 Data Collection

In this research, the data are collected by watching Titanic movie. In order to enrich the data, the Titanic movie script is also found out from the internet, especially on the website http:www.imsdb.comscriptsTitanic.html. Then, the dialogues of Jack and Rose in the script are compared with the movie itself. This step is done to make sure that there is no error appears in the movie script. After that, the scenes that only show the conversation between Jack and Rose will be selected. There are 205 utterances produced by Jack and Rose. Here, simple random sampling is used as a sampling strategy in this study. Blaxter et al 1996:164 states “simple random sampling is a sampling strategy where every individual or object in the group of population of interest has an equal chance of being chosen for study”. In this case, there are only 37 utterances of the total number of utterances that will be analyzed.

3.4 Data Processing