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’s Case : The Jakarta Post Reports On Bribery Attempt Case Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter describes the research method employed in this study. It includes the research design, the data collection, data analysis, and a sample of
data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
The study is largely qualitative. However, descriptive quantification is also employed in this study. It is used to support the quality of descriptions and to
make better understanding of the study. Besides, it is also used to increase validity and reliability of the study Alwasilah, 2011.
The study investigated the phenomenon in the form of how the Nazarudin‟s bribery attempt case is reported in the newspaper as the texts investigated, how
the major participants are represented in the texts, and what meanings can be constructed from the texts. The study also employs textual analysis. The selected
news was critically read, and word, phrases and clauses which serve as textual evidence were categorized.
Van Dijk‟s Sociocognitive Approach 2009 has been used as the main frame work to analyze the data.
3.2 Data Collection
The data of the study are in the form of words, phrases or clauses critically selected to answer the research questions. The data are collected from the news of
Fachru Ridha, 2013 Nazaruddin
’s Case : The Jakarta Post Reports On Bribery Attempt Case Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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The Jakarta Post in May, 2012. The subject matter of the data is concerning
Nazaruddin‟s bribery attempt case. The data consist of five texts. The texts have been sorted from 21
st
to 25
th
of May, 2012 as follows: 1.
“Lawmaker „tried to bribe court official‟”, May 21, 2011. 2.
“KPK hesitant about investigating Nazaruddin”, May 22, 2011. 3.
“Mahfud lashes out at Dems over gratuity claim”, May 23, 2011. 4.
“Dems ax Nazaruddin to save face, published on May 24, 2011 5.
“Mahfud officially reports Nazaruddin to KPK,” May 25, 2011.
3.3 Data Analysis
The collected data were analysed by using Sociocognitive Approach proposed by Van Dijk 2009. The data were mainly categorized into three levels
of analysis, namely, macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure. On every level of the analysis, the data were classified into more specific terms which will
be explained in the following paragraph. First, the data were analyzed on the level of macrostructures or semantic
macrostructures . This step was conducted to find out topics or theme. For
technical reason, this step was conducted in the beginning of analysis, because the topics usually lead to other information existing in the text, and they express the
overall content or global information, and represent the meaning or information which the readers will memorize best. In addition, the topics are also usually
controlled by powerful speakers and will influence many other structures of text Van Dijk, 2009.
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’s Case : The Jakarta Post Reports On Bribery Attempt Case Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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In the second step, the data were elaborated on the level of superstructures
. In this step, the texts are identified in term of their news schemata
category, such as introduction and specification. Those two categories, then, are divided into more specific category, namely, headline, lead, situation
and comments. The third step that was carried out was to examine the data on the level of
microstructure. Here, the data were classified into more specific terms, such as participants, occupational roles, communicative roles and positive-negative
representation of participants. The last step carried out was to examine, define, and discuss the whole
gathered data. After the analysis on each level was completed, the result of each was combined to result in the analysis of all levels.
3.4 Sample of Data Presentation
