CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Type of Research
This  research  belongs  to  descriptive  qualitative  research. It  means  that this  research  uses  descriptive  and  qualitative  method  of  analysis.  This  research
focuses  on the  activities such as collecting data, classifying data,  analyzing data, and  drawing conclusion  of  the  data.  It  refers to Surachmad’s  theory 1994:  147
that descriptive method is a kind of research method using technique of searching, collecting, classifying the data, interpreting them and drawing the conclusion.
While qualitative research focuses  its analysis on the  process of making the  deductive  conclusion,  and  also  on  the  analysis  of  the  relationship  between
phenomena of research, using scientific logic. Thus, this research focuses on the types of apology strategy used by the
characters,  the  factors  which  determine  the  choice  of  apology  used  by  the characters, and the relationship between the characters in the film entitled “Pretty
Woman “related to the function of apologizing acts.
B. Data and Source of Data
In conducting the research, the researcher takes the film entitled “Pretty Woman” and the script of this film as the source of data. Meanwhile, the data of
the  research  are  taken  from  verbal  and  non  verbal  acts  of  apologies.  The  verbal acts  are  taken  from  the  dialogues  which  are  expressed  by  the  characters  in  that
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film and the non verbal acts are the body language, facial expression, smiles, eye contact and touching expressed by the characters in that film.
C. Sample and Sampling Technique
Sample is a part of representation of the data being observed Arikunto, 1986: 117 whereas technique of sampling is a technique of choosing samples of
data Hadi, 1986: 75. This  research  employs  purposive  sampling  technique.  This  kind  of
sampling  is  used  for  the  data  which  are  going  to  be  analyzed.  All  of  the phenomena  that match  with  the  criterion  of  the  field  of the  study  are  as data.  In
this research, all of the dialogs that contain apologizing acts used by the characters of  the  film”  Pretty  Woman”  found  in  the  data.  These  dialogues are  used  as  the
sample of the research.
D. Technique of Collecting Data