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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter is divided into six sections. The sections are the research method, the research setting, the data source, the research instrument and data
gathering technique, the data analyzing technique, and the research procedure.
A. Research Method
This research is qualitative research in nature because of two reasons. First, it is because this research focuses on understanding social phenomena.
Qualitative research is intended to approach the world out there and to understand, describe and sometimes explain the social phenomena from inside a number of
different ways Ripley Uwe, 2007. The different ways mentioned in the definition were related to the technique of analyzing. Second, it is because of the
use of the document or movie transcript that contained the conversation as data analyzed. According to Ripley and Flick
2007, “analyzing conversation has a long tradition in the h
istory of qualitative research.” The data of this research were found in the Mr. and Mrs. Smith
movie‟s script that contained the conversation of the characters. The data were analyzed based on woods 1993b theories about
men and women‟s speech.
Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, p. 442 define document analysis as “a
research method applied to written or visual material for the purpose of identifying specified characteristic of materials
.” The materials were usually in the
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form of scripts, textbooks, advertisement, and any other types of document. In the same book, Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, p. 22 state that document analysis
was applied as the methodology for it “provides narrative description and interpretation.”
B. Research Setting
The analysis of Mr. and Mrs. Smith movie was started from September 9th, 2014 until April 10th, 2015. Therefore, the researcher spent half a year in
analyzing the script to gather the expressions of women‟s speech and men‟s speech in the transcript.
C. Data Source
The data of this research was Angelina Jolie‟s utterances in English movie
entitled Mr. and Mrs. Smith that was in the form of movie transcription. The researcher chose the movie because it had two criteria, such as social interaction
between men and women and the supporting social environment that was needed in analyzing the factors which affected the speech style.
The movie was a romantic-action American movie produced by 20th Century Fox Production in 2005. The movie was written by Simon Kingberg and
directed by Dough Liman. It was a two-hour duration movie with Mrs. Jane Smith that was played by Angelina Jolie as the main character.
The reason the researcher chose Jane‟s character was because she had
strong and unique personality. In the movie, Jane was someone who was known
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