Organization of Writing Thesis Kharisma Puspita Sari

1.5. Scope of The Study

The scope of the study is Islamic priests and teaching activities of kitab kuning at Pondok Pesantren Al Muhammad Cepu Blora. I investigated three Islamic priests. They are subjects of the research. The study concerns with illocutionary points and meaning levels used by Islamic priests in the teaching activities of kitab kuning at pondok pesantren. As foundation of the study, I use some theories such as: a speech acts classification by Searle 1969, b illocutionary force indicating devices by Yule, c directive speech acts by Vandervaken, d theory of felicity conditions by Searle, e cognitive view of metaphor by Lakoff and Johnson, f theory of meaning orders by Kittay.

1.6. Organization of Writing

I divided this study into five chapters: i introduction, ii review of related literature, iii research method, iv finding and discussion, and v conclusion and suggestion. The complete description of each chapter will be shown below. In this first chapter, I will explain some subchapters: a background of the study, b research problems, c objectives of the study, d significance of the study, e scope of the study, and f organization of writing. In the second chapter, I will provide two subchapters: i the previous studies, and ii related literature. In this first subchapter, I will explain some previous studies and in the second subchapter, I will describe related theories as theoretical framework. In the third chapter, I will discuss some subchapters: a description of the school, b research design, c research time and setting, d research subject, e research focus, f research instruments, g data collection techniques, and h data analysis techniques. In the fourth ones, I will present finding and discussion. I consider them as answer for research problems in this study. For answering these research problems, there are two components that will be explained in this chapter: i the illocutionary points used by Islamic priests in the teaching activities of kitab kuning, and ii meaning levels used by Islamic priests in the teaching activities of kitab kuning. In the last chapter, I will end up with the conclusion and suggestion. Conclusion is regarded as overall discussion of the study and suggestion considered as suggestion for some people such as the researcher, teachers and next researchers. CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE In this chapter, I will explain two subchapters: i previous studies, ii related literatures. In this first subchapter, I will explain some previous studies and in this second subchapter, I will use some related theories as theoretical framework.

2.1. Previous Studies