true that some issues have been subject to a lot of, and sometimes heated, discussion, there exists a core set of features that would universally
characterize a properly conducted qualitative study.
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Further, this method is using a verbal data or nonnumeric. Most of data are transformed into various types of texts from recorded interviews,
documents, journals or TV program such as talk show or interview. Unlike quantitative method, this method is more subjective because it is analyzing
phenomenon in daily life depend on how the researcher‟s viewpoint and the aim of qualitative descriptive method is to describe the data with
words. It can represent multiplicity of viewpoints and can offer support to alternative interpretations.
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2. The Technique of Data Collection and Analysis
The analysis of DMs is presented in stages: first, the writer will analyzes each sentence and look for markers are considered as discourse
markers like conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Second, the writer identified all markers that were found in the sentence. And the last,
the writer analyzes types and functions of DMs according to the theory of DMs.
3. The Unit of Analysis
The unit analysis of this study is in transcript of The Andrew Marr Show Interview with David Cameron, MP Conservative Leader on
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Zoltan Dorney, Research Method in Applied Linguistics Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, p.35
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David Nunan. Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992 p.78
September 28, 2014. And the writer focuses on the David Cameron‟s
utterances. 4.
The Instrument of Research
The instrument for data collection of this study is the data card in order to write, to identify which are needed from that text. The type of
instrument that the writer uses is non test instrument that is observation. Observation is an instrument used to obtain verbal data that rely on the
involvement of researchers, either directly or indirectly to the object being studied
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The writer conducts the data with his original work and gets the transcript from the website
www.bbc.co.uk and chooses The Andrew Marr
Show as the corpus.
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Muhammad Farkhan, Proposal Penelitian Bahasa Sastra Edisi Revisi Jakarta: Adabia Press, 2011, p.30
