Deixis Politeness
Speech Presupposition
Implicature Cooperative
acts Principle
Pragmatics Context
This Boy
’s Life
Observance Non
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Observance
Maxim of Maxim of
Maxim of Maxim of
Maxim Maxim
Maxim Maxim
Quantity Quality
Relation Manner
Violation Opt Out
Infringement Flouting
Types Strategies
1. Quantity Maxim Flouting Tautology, Overstatement,
Understatement
2. Quality Maxim Flouting Metaphor, Hyperbole,
Irony, Banter, Sarcasm
3. Relation Maxim Flouting Changing the topic
4. Manner Maxim Flouting Being obscure not brief
Figure 2. Analytical Construct
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of Study
Descriptive qualitative method was conducted by the researcher in this research. Vanderstoep and Johnston 2009:310 state that descriptive
qualitative research is aimed at making narrative or textual description of the phenomena under study. This means that descriptive qualitative research
occurs in natural settings where human behaviors and events happen. Jensen and Jankowski 1991:44 state that descriptive qualitative is a research which
has descriptive nature. Furthermore, descriptive qualitative research does not use statistic or replication as standards of proof. Therefore, this research was
emphasized on describing the phenomenon in its context by interpreting the data and applied a content data analysis method.
The researcher also used quantitative method to determine the percentage of the data and to support analyzing the data. In other words, this
research belongs to qualitative-quantitative research.
B. Research Instrument
Qualitative research involves the researcher as the main and primary instrument. Bogdan and Biklen 1982:27 state that the key instrument in
qualitative research is the researcher himselfherself. In accordance with Bogdan and Biklen, Heigham and Croker 2009:11 state that the researcher is
the primary research instrument in qualitative research. Therefore, the 42
researcher was the primary instrument of this research. The researcher planned the research, collected the data, analyzed the data, and reported the
result. The researcher also used data sheet to support the study.
C. Forms, Contexts, and Sources of the Data
According to Vanderstoep and Johnstone 2009:48, data are recorded measurements on a set of variables from a research sample. Data are the
information or materials which are used in some research and data are taken from the data source. In line with them, Denscombe 2007:286 states that
qualitative data take the form of words, either spoken or written, and visual images which are observed or creatively produced.
In this research, the data were in the forms of lingual units. They could be words, phrases, clauses, sentences and utterances found in the
conversation of This Boy ’s Life. Meanwhile, the contexts of the data were
dialogues since the object of the research was a movie. Finally, the sources of the data of this research were This Boy
’s Life movie and its transcript.
D. Techniques of Data Collection
Vanderstoep and Johnston 2009:189 state that visual analysis, such as film analysis is one of data collecting techniques. In accordance with
Vanderstoep and Johnston, Denscombe 2007:289 states that data in qualitative research need to be prepared and organized before they can be
analyzed. Therefore, there were some procedures which were used to collect the data in this research.
