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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design
This is a descriptive qualitative research as the aim of the study is to describe the interpersonal meaning of English and Javanese Catholic daily
prayers. Qualitative research methods were developed in social sciences to enable researchers to study social and cultural phenomena. Qualitative data
sources include observation and participant observation fieldwork, interviews and questionnaires, documents and texts, and the researcher’s
impressions ands reactions. In this research, the focus is on the word-level or appraisal devices since
it is based on appraisal systems which are used to search the interpersonal meaning of the prayers. The texts are also analyzed in linguistic system, which
is called interpersonal metafunction to know the relation between the speaker and the addressee.
3.2 Object of the Study
The objects of this research are the daily prayers said by Catholic people. As the objects are written texts, so the data are collected through documents.
Six Catholic daily prayers in English Basic Prayers are taken from ‘Traditional Catholic Prayers’www.catholictradition.orgprayershtm. They
are Our Father, Hail Mary, Act of Contrition, Act of Hope, and Act of Charity. While the daily prayers in Javanese Sembahyangan Padinan taken from
‘Padupan Kencana’1977 consist of Rama Kawula, Sembah bekti, Mugi Linuhurna, mBangun Keduwung, mBangun Pangarep-arep, mBangun
Katresnan. The complete prayer texts are available in Appendix 1
3.3 Units of Analysis In analyzing the Catholic daily prayers, Systemic Functional linguistics
and the Appraisal Systems are applied. The units of analysis are clause, modality and appraisal devices.
As stated above, the texts are firstly analyzed on clause-complex. Here the researcher focuses on the analysis of the interpersonal meaning to know
the relation between the speaker and the addressee. The interpersonal metafunction consists of Mood Subject + Finite and its polarity, or its
modality. Secondly, the prayers are analyzed on word-level. In this analysis, the researcher will see how the appraisal devices are used in these prayers.
This includes how they present their attitudes toward the phenomenon, how they amplify the presentation of the attitudes, and how they get the sources.
3.4 Data Analysis 3.4.1 Analysis of the prayers based on Interpersonal Meaning
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