Technique of Data Collection

The writer uses novel, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, as her primary data and other references related to the topic to strengthen her research. In making the research, the writer does some steps. First, the writer reads the novel for several times to get deep understanding about the idea of the novel. As the result, the writer will get interesting topic to discuss and analyze for this research. Second, the writer looks for the data related to the topic. Then analyze, describe, and connect it to suitable theories related with the topic. 1.6.5. Technique of Data Analysis 1.6.5.1. Structural Approach For the thesis, the writer uses structural approach and semiotic approach. According to Harsono 1999:47- 78, “Structural approach refers to the modern linguistic approach which is introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure. This approach based on assumption that literary work as a work of imagination can stand by itself.” The writer uses structural approach to analyze the intrinsic element of the literary work. 1.6.5.2.Semiotic Approach Semiotic approach is based on the assumption that the literary work has its potential communicative which is signed by a symbol which is artistic and dynamic. According to Eco in Nöth 1999: 326 “Semiotic is defined as a research program which studies all cultural processes as processes of communication.” Next he asserts his following definition of semiotic in Noth 1990: 326: Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can be taken as significantly substituting for something else. This something else does not necessarily have to exist or actually be somewhere at the moment in which a sign stands for it. Thus semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. The writer uses semiotic approach to analyze the symbol in literary work.

1.7. Thesis Organization

This thesis consists of five chapters. They are arranged as follows: Chapter I is Introduction. In this chapter the writer presents background of the study, statement of the problem, scope of the study, objective of the study, significance of the study, method of the study which are consists of research design, unit of analysis, technique of data collection and technique of data analysis, and thesis organization. Chapter II is Author and Synopsis. In this chapter the writer gives the short biography of Dan Brown and his work and the synopsis of Dan Brown “The Da Vinci Code ” Chapter III is Review of Related Literature. This chapter presents the theory of structural approach and semiotic approach that is used to analyze this thesis. The structural approach consists of character and characterization, conflict and setting. While in semiotic approach, the writer focuses on symbol. Chapter IV is Discussion. In Discussion, the writer answers the question of Objective of the Study. She describes every finding that she found in the novel and strengthens it by giving argument from the novel and literary review.