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Social motives: social motives in swearing deal with the intents of the
speaker to maintain or destruct his her relationship with others, including an effort to show social identity, to amuse someone, to insult someone, etc. For
instance, black people may say hey, nigga to their black friend to indicate the strong relationship between them.
3.
Linguistic motives: linguistic motives in swearing have something to do with
giving emphasize on something being talked about by employing swearwords. For instance, what a fuckin good show it is.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter will discuss the research methodology applied in the research. The discussion is divided into six parts namely: research method, research
setting, research participants or subjects, research instruments data gathering techniques, data analysis, and research procedure.
A. Research Method
This research was a qualitative research. According to Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, “Qualitative research focuses on understanding social
phenomena from the perspective of the human participants in the study” p. 22. Moreover, qualitative research gives depth understanding of the phenomenon
rather than only shows numerical data. In conducting the research, the researcher did not make any deception since the purpose of qualitative research was to obtain
data as natural as possible. The researcher conducted a content analysis in this research. Ary et al.
2002 mentioned that “Content Analysis is a technique that enables writers to study human behavior in an indirect way, through an analysis of their
communication” p. 472. The documents are usually written documents, namely books, magazines, articles, newspapers, novels, official documents, or pictures.
However, songs, videos, films, gestures, novels or speeches can also be analyzed. In this research, the researcher used data from the novel which was written by Ika
Natassa. The title of the novel was Antology Rasa. Those data were used to
31 answer the research questions. The researcher believed that content analysis is the
suitable method in addressing the two formulated research questions because it will provide the researcher an overview of the phenomenon related to swear
words.
B. Research Setting
This research was conducted at Sanata Dharma University as the requirement project of one of the compulsory subjects of the English Language
Education Study Program, Thesis. The researcher obtained some books as the resources of the theories to answer the research questions in library where the
access to some literature about linguistics is available. This setting was chosen in order to make the researcher easier to obtain the data and information needed for
the research. Somehow, the place where this research was conducting is various such as boarding house, campus, library, café and anywhere at which the internet
connection is available. Besides, the data were obtained in September 12, 2014. The data analysis itself was done in June 18, 2015.
C. Research Subject
The research subject of this research was a novel which was written by Ika Natassa. The title of the novel is Antologi Rasa and it is written in Bahasa
Indonesia. However, the researcher found some swear words which were written in English. The author also used some English sentences in the conversation
among the characters of the novel. Many swear words appeared in the certain pages and the researcher only focused on the use of swear words which are
employed by the main character in the novel.
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D. Research Instruments Data Gathering Techniques
In order to acquire the data to answer the two research questions, the researcher used two instruments namely human instrument and documents.
1. Human Instrument
An instrument is a tool or a device which is used to obtain the data. In this research, the researcher was the instrument of the research which was called as
human instrument. The research could not be conducted without human instrument because it was the key instrument of the research. According to
Poggenpoel and Myburgh 2003, the key in obtaining the data in a qualitative research is the researcher. Moreover, the researcher becomes the facilitator of the
research. He or she facilitates the communication in order to gather rich data. In this research, the researcher did not only obtain the data, but also analyzed the
data. Moreover, in this study, the research was continually driven from the planning stage, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting data, until reporting as
well as concluding the research. Moleong also states that the researcher is directly and personally involved in the research which is conducted 2004, p. 56.
Therefore, in this research, the researcher was the main instrument as human instrument was very important and the researcher, as human instrument,
was the data collector to answer the research question. In addition, data sheet was also employed as the secondary instrument. This data sheet was functioned to
write down the classified data. The data sheet was in the form of table for presenting two matters which became the focus of the study, which were, the
