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a part of pragmatics in which the utterances produced by someone can mean requesting, commanding, and stating. In other words, someone can produce an
utterance than conveys one or more than one meanings. Those components might be appropriate for further explanations for the findings especially related to the
characters’ utterances. Theory of sociolinguistics is a part of the theories because it is the study of language in society. Analyzing the characters’ conversations
means dealings with the concept of language use in the scope of society, especially for the utterances. The theories of maxims of conversation by Grice
1989 are included as the main sources to help the writer work on the findings later in chapter four.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter provides an analysis of the methodology which is used to find data of the particular research. There are six parts in this section, namely research
method, research setting, data source, instruments and data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure. Research method contains the
definition of the research type that is chosen by the writer.
A. Research Method
In this study, the writer focuses on the utterances produced by the characters in Iron Man related to maxims of conversation and speech acts. The
method that was used by the writer in this study is to answer the two research problems, what are the maxims of conversation used by the main characters in
Iron Man movie? and what are the speech acts used in speaking by the characters in Iron Man movie?
In order to answer the research problems, the study adopted a qualitative research because it focuses on the utterances of Iron Man’s characters. The results
of the research problems needed to be explained and interpreted by the words. This study qualitative research is used to analyze the data and to identify the
pattern of data based on the data collected through observation or document analysis.
