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findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other means of quantification. Tables and numbers in this research were used as tools to describe the phenomenon
under study hereinafter it is called as descriptive qualitative research Latief, 1999. The researcher applied discourse analysis in analyzing the data. In this
research, the researcher concerned with the use of women’s language features by a feminine male named Kurt Hummel. The
data, that is Kurt Hummel’s speech, were taken from Glee Television Series Season 1. The written transcripts were also used
to help the researcher analyzed the data.
B. Research Instrument and Data Gathering Technique
In this research, the researcher is the primary instrument because the researcher decides the topic to be analyzed, chooses the instrument to collect data,
reads the documents, and selects the data. The researcher also interprets the data through analysis and writes the conclusion. This approach is in accordance with
Ary, Jacob, Sorensen, and Razavieh 2010, who state in qualitative studies, the investigator is the data gathering instrument whereas he or she reads the documents
and records the information in the field notes. To answer the research question of this research, the researcher searched the
related data from the books, journals, and trusted websites in the Internet. The data analyzed by the researcher were collected from Glee Television Series Season 1 and
its transcripts. Another instrument used by the researcher is the observation checklist
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an observer is going to look for when observing the data. The observation checklist helped the researcher to classify and note the features used by Kurt Hummel in Glee
Television Series Season 1.
Table 3.1 The Observation Checklist of Women’s Language Features Used by Kurt Hummel in Glee Television Series Season 1
No Utterance
Women’s Language Features LHF
TQ R
EA C
I HG
SP SS
ES
Table 3.1 was the observation checklist used by the researcher in classifying the data. It contains
Kurt’s utterances in Glee Television Series Season 1 and ten women’s language features proposed by Lakoff 1975. It was used by the
researcher by giving a tick to a suitable feature column for each utterance. LHF= lexical hedgesfillers
TQ= tag question R= raising intonation on declaratives
EA= ‘empty’ adjectives C= precise color terms
I= intensifier HG= ‘hypercorrect’ grammar
SP= ‘superpolite’ forms SS= avoidance of strong swear words
ES= emphatic stress
The researcher analyzed Kurt Hummel’s speeches in Glee Television Series 1, which included twenty-two episodes. First, the researcher looked for all episodes
in season 1 and its transcripts. Next, the researcher watched the television series and read the transcripts at the same time to select and collect Kurt Hummel’s
utterances. Then, the utterances were classified based on Lakoff’s theory, and the
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