Type of Study Type of Data Source of Data

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

There are five points which this chapter will try to explain. The first is the type of study. It will give a slight overview on kind of research that this study has. The second is type of data. It will also give a slight overview on type of data used in this research. The third is source of data. It will give a slight overview on the sources of data. Then, the last is the data analysis method. It will give a slight insight how the data will be analysed.

A. Type of Study

This research is categorized as a descriptive stylistic study since it describes the natural use of language in real life, in this case language use in newspaper. This study belongs to stylistic study because it attempted to find the artistic principles underlying a writer’s choice of language. In a stylistic study, there were four general headings: lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech and cohesion and context Leech and Short, 1981:74. The focus of this research, the determiner and its deletion, belonged to the grammatical categories. Therefore, in this research, the determiner was used in order to try to reveal the artistic principles owned by the news writers. This study was also a descriptive research since it “attempts to describe, explain and interpret conditions…and to examine a phenomenon that is occurring at a specific places and time” http:www.mu.ac.inmyweb_testResearch20Methadology-Paper-3Chapter- 38 5.pdf. The phenomenon being discussed in this study was the determiner deletion which exists in news articles.

B. Type of Data

Since this research attempted to find determiner deletion in English- language newspapers, the main data of this study were the newspaper articles themselves. However, the data were only the articles, excluded the title and the headline of the newspaper. Therefore, the type of data was in a form of words since they were taken from the newspaper articles.

C. Source of Data

The research data were gathered from three English-language newspapers: two were Indonesian English-language newspapers and the other one was global English-language newspapers. However, the ones which would be used was the online edition of those three newspapers. The online websites of those three newspapers were categorized as type 2 by Dominick. They were online newspapers which also had the print edition newspapers. The two Indonesian English-language newspapers are The Jakarta Post and The Jakarta Globe. The Jakarta Post is a local English-language Newspapers which was firstly published in 1983. Up to now, The Jakarta Post has become a widely relied upon newspaper by the international community in Indonesia. Through the time, The Jakarta Post also has become the largest English-language newspaper in Indonesia. 39 The Jakarta Globe is a relatively new Indonesian English-language newspaper. It was firstly published in 2008 and it has claimed to be the Indonesia’s most-read English-language newspaper. Since these two are the most reliable English-language newspaper in Indonesia, they are chosen to be the object of the study. However, though both newspapers have the title ‘Jakarta’, the coverage of the news is not only about Jakarta, but it covers the news from all regions in Indonesia and it also covers worldwide issue. The International New York Times is an English-language international newspaper. The newspaper combines the news from its own correspondent and the news of The New York Times. It is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories. The reason why it is chosen is because the print edition is also available in Indonesia. The print edition can be easily found in an imported-book bookstore in Indonesia. Therefore, it is more reliable rather than other foreign newspapers like USA Today, the printed edition of which is difficult to find in Indonesia The online edition was chosen due to the effectiveness in analysing the data later. Having had the online edition, it was easier to count the words in order to make same exact length for the articles used as the data. Moreover, it was easier as well to count the number of determiners used in the articles.

D. Size of Data