Type of Research Data and Source of Data Sample and Sampling Technique

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the researcher will present the research methodology. Research methodology deals with the method used in reaching the goals of the research. The goals of this research are to analyze the compliments expression in the dialog of the characters in the movie and the way the addressees respond to the compliments.

A. Type of Research

This research belongs to a descriptive qualitative method, since this research is objected to collect the data, to analyze the data and to draw conclusion. Surakhmad 1994:147 states that a descriptive method is a kind of research method using technique of searching, collecting, classifying, analyzing the data, interpreting them, and finally drawing conclusion. Moreover, it is a qualitative research because this research aims at describing a non-statistical or descriptive data. Sutopo 2002: 35 states that in qualitative method, data were collected in the forms of words, sentences or pictures in which the meaning is more significant than numbers.

B. Data and Source of Data

Source of data refers to the subject from which the data are obtained Arikunto, 2002:107. Data themselves may appear in the form of discourse, 37 commit to user 38 sentences, clauses, phrases or words which can be obtained from magazines, newspaper, books, etc Subroto, 1992: 7. In this research, the researcher employs the film entitled The Holiday as source of data. Meanwhile, the data in this research are the conversation containing speech act compliments employed by the characters in the film entitled The Holiday including oral and written form. The film is chosen since the characters in the film frequently employ speech act compliments.

C. Sample and Sampling Technique

In qualitative research, samples are not taken from the population since the selection is the intended to take the generalization of the population but to gain the depth of information of the field of study. According to Sutrisno Hadi, sample is a part of representation of the data being observed 1983: 112, whereas, sampling technique is the way used by the researcher to select the samples of the data Hadi, 1983: 75. A total sampling technique was employed to get the samples of data. Therefore, the researcher takes all the conversations containing compliments in the film entitled “The Holliday”

D. Research Procedures