CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
Research method is a systematic work plan to make the purpose of the study is achieved easier. The method in this research is chosen by considering of the
research object. This research method is arranged based on the problem analyzed and the objectives of the study. The research method in this study consists of
research design, unit of analysis, and the source of data, technique of data collection, and technique of data analysis.
3.1 Research design
In this study, the researcher used qualitative descriptive method in analyzing the data. “Qualitative method is the strategy of choice in qualitative descriptive
study; the analysis is dynamic form to analyze of verbal and visual data that is oriented of describing an
d summarizing the informational content of the data” Morgan, 1993. Hence, the researcher analyzed the data by describing the data in
the form of word or sentence, not in the form of number. Based on the consideration above, the data of this research were news
articles of natural disaster taken from CNN.com. The data were analyzed by describing the types of vague language and the function of vague language used in
news articles on CNN.com.
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3.2 Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis in this research is every sentence, which contains vague language in news articles on CNN.com.
3.3 Source of Data
The data source of this research was taken from CNN.com. The data was news articles. The total of news articles is three as sample of natural disaster
news. The news articles were daily news published on September 24 and 25, 2013 and October 13, 2013. The news articles were downloaded from the website
http:www.cnn.comnews . They are:
1. Landslide which occured in the Philippines, downloaded from:
http:edition.cnn.com20130924worldasiaphilippines-landslidesindex.html?iref=allsearch
2. Earthquake
which occured
in Pakistan,
downloaded from:
http:edition.cnn.com20130924worldasiapakistan-earthquakeindex.html?iref=allsearch .
3. Phailin or Hurricane which occured in India, downloaded from:
http:edition.cnn.com20131012worldasiaindia-cyclone phailinindex.html?iref=allsearch .
The data above were downloaded by the researcher on 15 October 2013.
3.4 Techniques of Data Collection
The techniques used in gathering the data are: 1.
Searching the news article The researcher searched the news article at CNN.com on the internet.
Then, the researcher saw natural disaster news, there is vague languages found then the researcher decided to chose it for the data in this study.
