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researcher to get the understanding of social reality p. 23. In this part, the researcher applied qualitative research as the method
by identifying Alex’s and Gigi’s conversational styles and analyzing the misunderstanding phenomenon that appeared
in their conversations. In analyzing the data, the researcher used discourse analysis technique. In this
case, the researcher concerned with the context of communication in cross-sex conversations by using spoken text. The spoken text dealt with
He’s Just Not That into You movie that represented spoken language by Alex and Gigi. In this part, the
researcher changed it into written transcription so that it would be easy to be analyzed.
B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted the research for four months, from February until June 2016. In February 2016, the researcher selected
He’s Just Not That into You movie as the source of the data then chose the main characters in the movie, Alex and
Gigi to be observed. The researcher transcribed their conversations which had been gathered from the whole of Just Not That into You movie transcript in April 2016.
The next things were the researcher classified the conversations into some characteristics of conversational style then analyzed it in order to find out the factors
of misunderstanding from May to June 2016. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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C. Data Source
The data source of this research was a movie titled He’s Just Not That into
You where the story is about four different couples who had the different perception of their relationship. The Hollywood movie which was directed by Ken Kwapis was
released in 2009. This American romantic comedy-drama movie was adapted from Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillos best-selling self-help book with the same title,
He’s Just Not That into You.
The researcher chose one of the couples, Gigi Ginnifer Goodwin and Alex Justin Long who are the central characters of the movie. Gigi is the representation
of a woman who has a feminine character while Alex is the representation of a man who has a masculine character. The researcher analyzed the way of how they
communicate each to other in some scenes of the movie. Here the researcher also realized one of the things that can create
misunderstanding in direct communication which is the difference of characteristic from every gender. That is why the researcher analyzed which part of their
conversational styles which lead Gigi and Alex to get misunderstanding. The researcher chose
He’s Just Not That into You movie as the subject of this research because the story is representing the social phenomena which happened in our
society, especially in the conversation that every couple has made. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
