Types of Language Function

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id and referential function. Referential function is the most frequently used function that contained some information. He also found double function that exist in one utterance. The last previous studied done by Alfina 2015, she analyzed Language Functions Used by the Main Character in “The Pacifier” Movie. She used Holmes’s theory to analyze language function and also used Hymes’s theory to explain the context of the language function in “The Pacifier” Movie. She found out seven types from eight types of language functions categorized by Holmes, they are; expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, phatic, heuristic and commissive functions of language. She also found out the context of the use of language functions, they are; setting, participants, ends, act sequences, key, instrumentalities, norms and genre. In conclusion, the similarities of the previous studies and this present research are the kind of language functions and the language function mostly used. Meanwhile the differences between the previous studies and this present research are subject, theory and the research problem because the second research problem is the meaning behind language functions used by Hillary Clinton in The Presidential Debates of United State of America 2016 and used Jakobson’s theory 1960. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 21

CHAPTER III METHOD OF THE STUDY

This chapter discusses about the methodology of the research. This chapter consists of research design, the role of the researcher, research instrument, subject of the research, data and data source, data collection, and data analysis.

3.1 Research Design

This present research is focused on the language function used by Hillary Clinton in The Presidential Debates of United State of America in 2016. In addition, the purpose of this research is to identify the kinds of language function and the meaning behind language function that used by Hillary Clinton.in presidential debates. The researcher used Roman Jakobson’s 1960 theory about language function to identified the utterances, word, sentences that been used by Hillary Clinton in The Presidential Debates of United State of America in 2016. This research used the qualitative research to analyze the data since the data are in the form of words not numbers. According to Strauss 1990, p.17 qualitative research is a kind of research that produces finding not arrived by means of statistical procedures or other means of quantification and maybe quantified with census data but the analysis itself is a qualitative one. The researcher used qualitative research to descriptive data it the form of written text or oral text. Qualitative research also is one of methods that appropriate for analyzing data and