B. Focus of the Study
This research utilizes the Building Tasks concept by James Paul Gee to unveil the building tasks of discourse depicted on The Huffington Post
‟s Gay Voices
HuffPostGay tweets and its social activities and identities in the stance on LGBT issues.
C. Research Questions
1. What are the building tasks of discourse depicted on The Huffington
Post ‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay tweets?
2. How does The Huffington Post‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay portray
its social activities and identities in the stance on LGBT issues reflected by the building tasks of discourse of its tweets?
D. Significance of the Study
The significance of this research is to give a new contribution to the field of linguistics, specifically to the study of discourse analysis. Theoretically, the
result of this research paper can be a source of useful information in the development of discourse studies moreover in the aspect of discourse building.
Practically, the result of this research paper can be a source of useful information for the writer, the readers, and the public in general to recognize and understand
the scientific field of discourse, discourse studies, and even more specific, discourse building.
By recognizing and understanding the building process of discourse in tweets
which are related with the issues related to minorities issues, the level of awareness and tolerance will be elevated to prevent ignorant and discriminative
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actions caused by misunderstanding through misrepresentations in the media which have been happening from the past. It is also expected that the research to
be taken into consideration as a material for further research and studies.
E. Research Methodology
1. Objectives of the Research
a. To describe the building tasks of discourse depicted on The
Huffington Post Gay Voices HuffPostGay tweets.
b. To discover The Huffington Post Gay Voices HuffPostGay
social activities and identities in the stance on LGBT issues reflected by the building tasks of discourse of the tweets.
2. The Method of the Research
The method which is used by this research is qualitative case study. Merriam, as quoted by Nunan, defined:
The qualitative case study can be defined as an intensive, holistic, description and analysis of a single entity, phenomenon or social
unit. Case studies are particularistic, descriptive, and heuristic and rely heavily on inductive reasoning.
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The result of this research will be described in analytical
description. This research will be using the Building Tasks theory by James Paul Gee. The analysis will discover the building process of
discourse on The Huffington Post ‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay
tweets and its social activities and identities in the stance on LGBT issues.
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David Nunan, Research Methods in Language Learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 77.
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3. The Technique of Data Collection and Data Analysis
The data are collected using teknik kepustakaan bibliography technique as it is enable researchers to use written resources to gain
data.
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The research utilizes direct attention on the linguistic phenomenon, the discourse building tasks, appears on The Huffington
Post ‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay tweets. The process of data
collection in this research involved a number of steps: a.
The Twitter page of The Huffington Post‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay is taken into consideration and read.
b. Twelve tweets from The Huffington Post‟s Gay Voices
HuffPostGay Twitter page are taken as the representation of each of the months of the first half of the year 2014 until the
month of June. c.
The relevant parts of the tweets are identified, highlighted, and being written on the data cards.
When the data are complete, the analysis begins from the identification and description of the relevant parts of the tweets which
represent the discourse building tasks; therefore, the discourse building on the tweets will be discovered by using the Building Tasks theory by
James Paul Gee.
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Edi Subroto, Pengantar Metoda Penelitian Linguistik Struktural, Surakarta: Sebelas Maret University Press, 1992, p. 42.
4. Instrument of The Research
The research instrument used on this research is data card
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, a tool of certain sizes to write the relevant data from the focus of the research
to identify and to highlight the relevant data to be analyzed from tweets as the written form of discourse with the help of a connection to the
World Wide Web to access The Huffington Post ‟s Gay Voices
HuffPostGay Twitter page to collect twelve tweets and accumulate the data.
5. Unit of Analysis
The unit analysis of the research are twelve tweets from The Huffington Post
‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay Twitter page as the representation of each of the months of the year 2014 until the most
recent one to the date of research composing, the month of June, to acquire the general overview of discourse building theory used on its
tweets .
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Ibid. , p. 42.
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