32 being happier. On the last day, the nanny says good bye to the family and gives
them presents or gifts. The data taken was limited to Season 1 of Nanny 911 produced in the year
2004. It was taken because the study was about respect and obedience in children – adult communication and the TV show contained the examples of interactions
between children – adult which shows respect and obedience. It represented the
various nannies and families, also the differences of utterances between the obeyed and the disobeyed. The nannies presented in the series were Nanny
Deborah Carrol, Nanny Stella Reid, and Nanny Ivonne Finnerty. Seventeen families were presented in Season 1, they were The Rock Family, The Johnston
Family, The Paul Family, The Mccray Family, The Mckelvain Family, The Mcroberts Family, The Lorimor Family, The Priore Family, The Sterneman
Family, The Finck Family, The Dunleavy Family, The Cubbison Family, The King Family, The Amico Family, The Lawrence Family, The Dickson Family, and The
Silcock Family.
C. Data Collection
The data of this study were taken from the discourses between adult and children in the Season 1 of Nanny 911. There were some steps done to gather the
data. First was to watch the show carefully to consider which part of the show that involved adult-children communication which demanded
the children’s respect and obedience. Second was to transcribe the discourses. Third was to classify
which discourses show the children’s respect and obedience and which discourses were not.
33 Examples of the data were shown below. After watching the episode of The
Finck Family, choosing the scenes that contain conversations which demand respect and obedience, the writer transcribed the discourses. The first was a
conversation between Nanny Deb and Catherine, a child of The Finck Family, when suddenly Catherine cried because she wanted
to have her mommy’s timer and her mommy did not want her to have it. The setting was the living room.
Nanny Deb : Excuse me, Catherine. You need to use your word, you have a
wonderful word. Take your breath. You are doing a good job. You are just upset, tell me why?
Catherine : I want that….
Nanny Deb : You want the timer? OK. Look, mommy took the timer away
because she does not want you to have it. But we are not whining any more. Do you need to have sometime in your room
or would you like to play with your sisters downstairs?
Catherine : Play downstairs…
Nanny Deb : OK.
The second conversation was between Mrs. Finck and her son, David, who cried and would not stop crying when his mother told him to. The setting was the living
room.
Mommy : No kicking, David David keeps on kicking
David : No…..
Mommy : Say I’m sorry for using bad words, Mommy.
David : No…..
Mommy : Then this is going bye
bye. I’m taking it away. David
: No…. crying Mommy
: You want me to give it to you back? No more bad words. giving the toy to David
The number of data taken was 140 utterances. The utterances then were classified according to the responds of the hearer whether it was positively responded or
obeyed, or negatively responded or disobeyed. Each utterance was given the code according to the number of the episodes. The numbers of the episodes in the series
were 1 The Rock Family, 2 The Johnston Family, 3 The Paul Family, 4 The
34 McCray Family, 5 The McKelvain Family, 6The McRoberts Family, 7The
Lorimor Family, 8 The Priore Family, 9 The Sterneman Family, 10 The Finck Family, 11 The Cubbison Family, 12 The Dunleavy Family, 13 The
King Family, 14 The Amico Family, 15 The Lawrence Family, 16 The Dickson Family, and 17 The Silcock Family
A discourse was then divided into each turn of the conversation. For instance Mommy’s utterance and David’s response was considered as one turn
then coded as a . Mommy’s utterance was then coded as 1 and David’s respond
was coded as 2. The table below shows the illustration of the coding.
The next step was to classify the discourses that gained the children’s respect and
obedience and those that did not. It was seen from the children’s responses
whether they give positive or negative responses. Positive responses meant that the children voluntarily followed the adults saying without any resistance,
whereas negative responses were whether the children resisted the adult saying or follow them with resistance. For example, the utterance 10.a.1 was classified as
Participants Utterance
Code Mommy
No kicking, David 10.a.1
David: No ….. Da id keeps o ki ki g and crying
10.a.2 Mommy
Say I’ sorry for usi g ad ords, Mo y.
10.b.1 Da id: No….. crying
10.b.2 Mommy
Then this is goin bye bye. 10.c.1
I’ taki g it a ay. 10.c.2
Da id: No…. ryi g 10.c.3
Mommy You want me to give it to you back?
10.d.1 No more bad words. giving the toy to David
10.d.2
35 having negative response. David answered No
to his mother’s order to stop kicking, he also still kept
on kicking and crying despite his mother’s order.
D. Data Analysis
