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