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56 Those texts above are about a celebrity named Miley Cyrus.
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“Glambert Out Beat-Her-Down In?” “Chris Brown Heckled By Woman In Public”
Those texts above are about a celebrity named Chris Brown.
The texts are categorized into four. They are four different celebrities. This is in order to observe clearly the writer‟s evaluation towards those four artists so
that those can be analyzed whether the writer is subjectively or objectively evaluate something or someone. The texts about Katy Perry, Leona Lewis, Miley
Cyrus and Chris Brown are chosen as the data because those artists represent Perez Hilton‟s evaluation towards other artists.
D. Data and Source of Data
Based on Michael Quinn Patton, 1980, the sources of data are from which the data exist. Then, data are divided into two; primary data and secondary data.
The primary data are the data that have been collected by the researcher, and secondary data are data that have been collected by other researchers but some
parts are used by the researcher. The sources of data in this research are the gossip news texts which are
written by a same writer, Perez Hilton, from perezhilton.com. There are two kinds of data in this research, the primary data and
secondary data. The primary data contain linguistics cases about English appraisal including attitudes, engagement, and graduation; text genre and prosody; and
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56 ideology of the writer towards the texts. The data taken are in the form of
appraising item that can be analyzed their attitudes: affect, judgment, and appreciation, as well as engagement and graduation.
The secondary data of this research are the information of Perez Hilton‟s
personal life related to his writings.
E. Data Validity
Based on Michael Quinn Patton 1980, data validity refers to a strategy to collect data more than one technique. It is usually called as triangulation.
In qualitative research, it is better to apply triangulation or to use various methods multi-methods and multi-respondentsinformants. It means that it does
not only collect data from one kind of respondent or one informant, and does not only use one method of collecting data, but employs some informants and some
methods of collecting data interview, observation, documentation. Amirin: 2011. Because this research is a qualitative research, triangulation becomes
important. There are four types of triangulation; data triangulation use of various
sources of data in a study, investigator triangulation use of some different evaluators or social scientists, theory triangulation use of more than one point of
view to interpret a set of single data, and methodology triangulation use of more than one method to investigate problems or single program, such as interview,
observation, structured questionnaire and documentation. Patton: 2006
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56 This research only applies data triangulation. Source of data triangulation
of this research is that the data are collected from the same website with different artists. In this research, the data are collected from 8 different texts of gossip news
written by Perez Hilton.
F. Data Analysis
