CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of six parts. The first one is the description of the research method that is used in this study. The second part is the research setting;
it is used to inform when the study is conducted. The third is data source of the research. The fourth provides the description of research instrument and the data
gathering techniques. The fifth contains the steps of data analysis technique. The last part is the research procedure which summarizes the steps in conducting the
study.
3.1 Research Method
This research is qualitative research. In qualitative research, the focus is on understanding the social phenomena from the perspective of the human
participants in the study Ary, Jacobs Razavieh, 2002, p. 22. It enables researchers to study human behavior in an indirect way through an analysis of
their communication. However, in conducting qualitative research, there are some methods that can be used; case study, content analysis, discourse analysis. In this
study, the researcher used content analysis since the researcher employed the transcript as a document or recorded material. Fraenkel and Wallen 2012, p. 478
state that content analysis is a technique that enables the researcher to study human behavior in an indirect way through an analysis of their communication.
Content analysis focuses on analyzing and interpreting recorded material to learn about human behavior. The material may be public records, textbook, essays,
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newspapers, letters, films, tapes, diaries, themes, reports, or other document. To analyze the documents, a researcher needs to organize the material by developing
appropriate categories, ratings, or scores that the researcher can use for subsequent comparison in order to illuminate what he or she is investigating. In this study, the
applied and analyzed document was the transcript from the speeches of “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel”. The researcher analyzed the transcript of the
conversation occurred in the game which is found in the internet. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the transcript of conversation which contains swearing. The
transcripts which do not contain swearing will not be analyzed.
3.2 Research Setting
This research was conducted in several places where the researcher could gain access to the literature sources both in the form of printed books or digital
files. The books were obtained from library and the digital files could be accessed anywhere as long as there is connection to internet. However, the researcher
mostly performed the research at home because the book from the library could be brought home and there always be internet connection there.
3.3 Data Source
The data source of this research is the transcripts of the speeches of the main character, Jack, in “Borderlands: Pre-Sequel” game. The transcript is
obtained from the internet on the website: www.borderlands.wikia.comwikiCategory:Transcripts.
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3.4 Research Instruments and Data Gathering Techniques
The only instrument used in this content analysis research was the transcript of the speech of “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel”. The researcher used
the transcript to gather the swearing utterances occurred in the game. To ease the data gathering, the researcher then formulated categories that were relevant to the
investigation by coding. Fraenkel and Wallen 2012, p. 436 state that coding is a technique that is used in content analysis method. Coding is the analytic process
through which data are fractured, conceptualized and integrated to form theory. The following table presented two objectives which became the main focus of the
study; the types of swearing and the motives of swearing. The format of the coding table shows how the researcher answers the first and the second research
problem of this study.
Table 3.1. Format of the Coding Table of the Types of Swearing and Motives of Swearing by the Main Character of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
No Code Data Types
Motives
Dialogue Swearing
Expression E
S A
b S
H S
A u
S
P M
S M
L M
1. The Beginning
of The End 8
Soldier I surrender I give up
Jack Off course he does
Now kill him Jack Hahahha
He really
thought we were gonna let him go. He
was like “daaah, I’m gonna turn my life
around and eat better and finish my novel
and stuff”, then BOOOOM What a
dumbass, ahaha
What a dumbass,
ahaha
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