RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. Replaying the film entitled “Dangerous Minds” several times in order to understand the whole story.

2. Finding the transcript of the film from the internet (http://www.imdb.com/moviescripts/d/dangerous-minds.html)

3. Transcribing all of the dialogs containing swearing words expression into the form of list as the data.

4. Identifying and classifying the swearing words expression found in the dialogs by giving number to each datum.

F. Data Coding

In this research, the data were given some codes to make the analysis easier. The data coding was based on the order of the datum number, type of swearing word, the number of the dialogue, and the scale of the participants‟

relationship. The following is the example of data coding:

(15/Religion/Dlg09/Sub-Super)

15 : refers to the number of datum Religion : refers to types of swearing words The following are the types of swearing words:

 Religion  Anatomy  Excretion  Stupidity  Animal  General

Dlg09

: refers to number of dialogue

Sub-Super : the swearing word is expressed from subordinate to

superordinate. The participants‟ scale can be Subordinate to Superordinate (Sub-Super), Superordinate to Subordinate (Super-Sub), or Equal status (Equal).

G. Technique of Analyzing Data

The researcher uses Socio-Pragmatics approach to analyze the collected data. The techniques of analyzing data come into the following steps.

1. Analyzing the data using Hughes‟s theory to answer the types of swearing word employed by the characters in the film entitled “Dangerous Minds”

2. Describing how swearing words are expressed and interpreting the reason of swearing words are employed by the characters in the film based on Dell Hymes‟ SPEAKING formula as the guiding theory.