Techniques of Data Collection

D. Techniques of Data Collection

Since the research belongs to qualitative-quantitative research, the primary instrument is the researcher. She has important role in designing the data. In collecting the data, the researcher did several steps as follows. 1. The researcher watched the movie entitled Thank You for Smoking. 2. The researcher took the transcript from the Internet and read it. 3. The researcher re-watched the movie, re-read the transcript and checked whether the transcript matches with the movie or not. 4. Then, she highlighted the data related to the phenomena of maxim flouting and classified them. 5. The researcher made a data sheet and put the data into it. The form of data sheet is presented in the next page. Table 1. Data Sheet of Types, Strategies and Context of Maxim Flouting of the Main Character in Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking Note: 00:08:27: Minute QT : Maxim of Quantity QL : Maxim of Quality RL : Maxim of Relation MN : Maxim of Manner TM :Giving too much information TL :Giving too little information IO : Irony MT : Metaphor HB : Hyperbole BA : Banter IR : Being irrelevant OB : Being obscure S1 : Setting of Place and Time S2 : Scene P : Participant E : End A : Act K : Key I : Instrumentalities N : Norm G : Genre No. Data Code Dialogues Context Maxim Flouting Explanation QT QL R L M N T M T L M T I O B A H B I R O B 3. MNOB 00:08:27 The student: What’s that? Nick: It’s kind of like being a movie star. It’s what I do. I talk for a living. S1: At day, in Joey’s class S2: Nick stands in front of the class and explains his job to the students P: Nick Naylor and one of the students E: To inform A: Nick is explaining his job as a lobbyist in front of the students in Joey’s class, one of the students asks Nick about it K: Serious I: Spoken N: When the speaker asks, the hearer is expected to give a clear answer G: A formal conversation  When Nick is explaining his job as a lobbyist in front of the students in Joey’s class, one of the students asks Nick. Since a lobbyist is not as familiar as the other jobs, a kid asks Nick what a lobbyist is. His answer is ambiguous and hard to understand. The obscurity of Nick’s answer is marked by the word ‘kind of’. The term ‘kind of’ is usually used when a speaker is trying to explain or describe something but she cannot be exact. Hence, he flouts the maxim of manner by being obscure.

E. Techniques of data Analysis