Radio Drama It wasn’t raining. p.44

33 After all verbal humour within the object collected, the researcher will utilize the theory about the types of verbal humour as a tool to categorize the verbal humour found within the transcript. Having understood each type of the verbal humour, the researcher will categorize all verbal humour into 12 categories: pun, riddle, joke, satire, limerick, parody, anecdote, farce, irony, sarcasm, tall tale, and wit. This is done in order to fully answer the first research question. Meanwhile, the General Theory of Verbal Humour GTVH is employed to solve the second research question. As the second research problem deals with the linguistic analysis of verbal humour, the GTVH will be very beneficial to help the researcher. By giving attention to every KR in GTVH, the researcher will be able to analyse the verbal humour linguistically found within the object. This entire framework is constructed within the context of radio drama, its types and its characteristic, as the object of the research is radio drama. Figure 2.2 is the diagram of the framework to illustrate it better. Figures 2.2 The Theoretical Framework 34

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter provides the elaboration of methodology used to collect the data for the research. There are five sections within this chapter. They are Research Method, Research Object, Instruments and Data Gathering, Data Analysis Technique, and Research Procedures. The following is the elaboration of each section.

A. Research Method

This research is a qualitative research. The required data is gathered through document or content analysis. Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, and Razavieh 2010 mention that document and content analysis is a type of qualitative technique which analyses and interprets the recorded material to learn about human behaviour. The material for the analysis can be in the form of public records, textbooks, letters, films, tapes, diaries, themes, reports, or other documents like webpages, speeches, TV programs, or many others p. 29. Like the other document or content analysis research, this research begins with questions that can be answered by studying available documents. As this research aims at investigating verbal humour on BBC Radio Drama Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi, the transcripts of the episodes of the radio drama will be the main document which is analysed within this study. Using the document or content analysis method, the researcher studies the transcript PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI