Methods and Research Procedure The Organization of Writing

March until April, 2010 by doing the observation of the condition in the notary office since Monday to Friday.

F. Methods and Research Procedure

Politeness in speech act request uses pragmatic approach in which it belongs to qualitative research, a research method that applies some theories into a field research in order to get explanation of the use of requests in Sambas Dialect of Malay. The purpose of the research is descriptive research, it intends to describe the finding qualitatively. Observation becomes the way to collect the data, in which it only focuses on the conversation consisting speech act of request in the notary office. In order to obtain the data, recording and note taking are used simultaneously. Media recorder is used to record the data directly, and note taking is used to complement the data. After that, the data is transcribed in orthographic, and translated in Bahasa Indonesia and English. Data analysing uses contextualization strategy, in which the context becomes a tool to assess the request forms, the politeness strategies and factors influencing the choice of politeness strategies. Besides, pragmatic identity method is used to assess the politeness strategies and factors influencing the choice of strategies according to the interlocutor‟s responds Kesuma, 2007: 53.

G. The Organization of Writing

There are eight chapters in this thesis, i.e. Chapter I Introduction consists of Background to the Study and Statements of the Problems, Objectives and Significance of the Study, Scope of the Study, Methods and Research Procedure, and Outline of the Study. After that, Chapter II is Review of related literature consisting of Previous Study and Underlying Theory. Moreover, Chapter III is Research Methods consisting of Data Providing, Data Analysis, and Data Presentation. Chapter IV is analysis of Mood, Politeness strategies and the factors influencing the choice of politeness strategies. Finally, Chapter V consists of Conclusion and Suggestion. CHAPTER II LITERARY REVIEW This chapter presents previous research and literary review. Previous study is related to the previous research of Politeness in speech act of request and Sambas dialect of Malay that have been conducted by previous reseachers. Meanwhile, the literary review presents some theories related to the study.

A. Previous Research