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2.3. Previous Related Research
The research about transitivity has been done before by some people, e.g. “An Analysis of Steve Jobs’ Speech Observed from The Perspective of Transitivity
System” Masita, 2014. It analyzes the speech of Steve Jobs. The writer found six types of transitivity process and Material process are the most dominant types of
process in that research. “Transitivity Process in Worldviews Articles of Newsweek” Andriyani,
2010. It analyzes the article of news magazine. The writer of that thesis takes the Worldview’s article of Newsweek to find the six types of transitivity process and get
the most dominant process which characterizes the article. In analyzing the data, she uses the Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach Theory SFLT of Halliday as the
bases of analysis. “An Analysis of Transitivity Time Magazine: A Case Study of Arts Rubrics”
Winda, 2010. The writer of that thesis chooses the articles of magazine to be analyzed. The writer takes “Arts” articles of Time Magazine to find the transitivity
process and get the most dominant process which characterizes the article. These two thesis are related to the research that is going to be done by the writer.
Besides, there is “An Analysis of Transitivity Processes of Inauguration Speeches of Two Prime Ministers of Australia John Howard and Julia Gillard”
Rahmadiana, 2011. In this thesis, the writer explores the six types of transitivity process found in the two president inaugural speeches, e.g. material, mental,
relational, behavioral, verbal, and existential processes. This thesis also relates to the research that is going to be done because talks about transitivity.
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Another work is “A Transitivity Analysis In Selected Articles of Time Magazine” Suranta, 2009. In this work, the writer analyzed the transitivity process
which consists of Material Process, Mental Process, Verbal Process, Relational Process, Behavioural Process, and Existential Process found in “Politic” articles of
Time Magazine in October 2008 The Temperament Factor: Who’s Best Suited to the Job written by Nancy Gibbs, and in November 2008 Thailand’s Political Crisis
Becomes a Global One written by Hannah Beech. In this thesis, the writer found that material process is the most dominant found in politic articles of Time Magazine.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
According to Azwar 1999:5, research can be classified in some ways and point of views. Based on the approach of its analysis, research can be done by two
ways, quantitative research and qualitative research. Research based on the quantitative approach emphasizes the analysis of numerical data numbers that are
processed by using statistical methods. Research based on the qualitative approach emphasizes the analysis of the process of deductive and inductive inference as well
as the analysis of the dynamics of the relationship between the phenomena that are observed by using scientific logic.
In writing this research, research based on qualitative approach is applied by collecting some theories and information about transitivity system from books,
thesis, internet, and other sources to support the writing.
3.1. Nature of Research
Qualitative research is research which is not using statistical but through data collection, analysis, and interpretation. At least, there are 8 nature of qualitative
research, the ethnographic, case studies, studies of documenttext, natural observation, focused interviews, phenomenology, grounded theory and historical
research. In this research, the writer used qualitative research methods - the studies of
documenttext. Document studies are studies that focused on the analysis or interpretation of the written material in context. Materials can include published
notes, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, papers, films, diaries, manuscripts, articles, etc. To obtain a high credibility researchers document must be sure that
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