lxxviii Adj: conj.
Subject Finite
Predicator Complement
MOOD RESIDUE
textual topical
Theme Rheme
Eggins, 1994, p.282
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Method
This research is a descriptive qualitative method. Surakhmad 1994 states that a descriptive method is a research method by ways of collecting data, arranging or
classifying, analyzing, and interpreting the data p. 147. This is descriptive since the data collected are in the form of words or sentences implying certain meaning. The descriptive
research is commonly used to describe certain phenomena, based on the data collected, to get a conclusion. This research is also qualitative since the purpose of this research is to
describe the facts or phenomena systematically and acurantely. Subroto 1992 states that a qualitative research is a kind of research method upon a problem, which is not designed
to use statistic procedures p.7. The qualitative research is essentially an investigative process; “Someone investigates a kind of social phenomena by contrasting, comparing,
lxxix replicating, cataloguing, or classifying the object.” Miles and Huberman, 1984. The
data used in a qualitative research are in the forms of words, sentences, discourse, pictures, diary, memorandum, and video, and there is also no calculation or enumeration
Sutopo, 1999: p.20.The descriptive qualitative research is a type of research which does not include any calculation or enumeration since the data produced are words Moleong,
1990. The research is also descriptive comparative. It compares one another in order to
solve the problems Surachmad, 1994. The reseacher compares the genre and ideology of editorials exposing the tsunami’s tragedy in two different mass medias on the internet.
B. Data and The Source of Data
The source of data is the subject from which the data are obtained Arikunto, 1986:6. The source of data were editorial of The New York Times in January, 8th 2005
edition taken from www.nytimes.com and the editorial of the Arab News in January, 9th 2005 edition taken from www.arabnews.com.
The data of the research resource are the lexicogrammar system including clauses, theme system, transitivity, MOOD system, nominal group, verbal group, and text
structure in the frame of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
C. Sample and Technique of Sampling
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