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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Type
This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Surakhmad 1994: 147 states that descriptive method is kind of research method using technique of searching,
collecting, classifying, analyzing the data, interpreting them and finally drawing conclusion.
Meanwhile, according
to Kirk
and Miller
1986 in
http:www.encyclopedia.comQualitative_research.aspx.html accessed on 8
th
July 2011 defines qualitative research has purpose to understand the richness and
complexity of social experience by attending closely to the actions, interactions, and social contexts of everyday life. It involves systematically seeing people in their
territory or speaking with them in depth about their thoughts and feelings. I conduct the research by collecting the data, arranging or classifying the data and analyzing the
data of the research. The objectives of this research are classifying slang and interpreting slang function in the data analysis. As a result, conclusion will be drawn
from data analysis.
B. Data and Source of Data
In conducting this research, I employ the dialogue script of the movie as primary data sources. In addition, the movie and the review of the movie are used as
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secondary data as reference for social distance, mood, and atmosphere between the speakers. The movie chosen for this research is
Ramona and Beezus
. I choose
Ramona and Beezus
as subject to investigate for several reasons that
will be explained as follows: 1.
This film reflects the life of families in United States. The issues mainly explored in this film are children development and family’s problems of their
life. It is interesting to know further about language variety used by American family when they use slang word.
2. Generally people think that slang commonly used by teenager and considered
as uncommon by older people Holmes: 2001 p.183. Nevertheless, there are a phenomenon that slang used dominantly by children and adults in American
family. Therefore, research on ordinary American family is interesting to be done since it remains uninvestigated also by the two recent researchers.
C. The Research Instruments