Data Analysis Technique Research Procedure

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D. Data Analysis Technique

The researcher used content analysis to analyse his findings about the verb affixations in The Jakarta Post editorials. The researcher would take a note on each affixed verb and those suspected as affixed verbs which were found in the editorials. The researcher referred to some dictionaries and encyclopedia to find out the affixed verbs to analyse. The next step was determining and listing the bases of each verb. If the researcher could not reveal the base of the verbs, the researcher would provide some information about the verbs in the discussion. To obtain the answer to the research problem, the researcher compare the affixed verbs to their bases. Every letter in the affixed verbs would be compared to the letters constructing the bases. The researcher would also consider the parts of speech of each base to identify the word class changing. By looking at the morphological processes happening which caused the bases to transform into certain verbs, the researcher then analysed the changing based on the theories the researcher referred to. Besides, the researcher would also refer to some dictionaries to compare the affixed verbs to the roots or bases, especially related to the borrowings.

E. Research Procedure

In this section, the researcher explained the steps in conducting the research. The researcher firstly determined the verbs which contained certain affixes as limited in the problem limitation. Then, any inflectional affixes found in 28 the verbs were eliminated. The data collected were categorised based on the derivational affixes constructing the verbs. After the data were collected, the researcher put each category into a table as presented below. no verb base word class morphological process freq Table 3.2 Form of the data gathering no : number verb : affixed verb found base : base of the verb word class : part of speech of the base freq : frequency of the verb in the 32 editorials morphological process : the morphological process happened within the verb affixation In order to avoid confusion due to the chaotic organisation of the table, the researcher will provide one table for one affix. As there are six affixes to analyse, there are six tables presented in this research. The paragraph in the following page is an example of the paragraph in The Jakarta Post editorials. How the researcher analysed the verbs containing certain affix will also be shown in this example. The affix analysed in the paragraph is suffix –en. 29 There has been no official statement from either the House or the government about the planned endorsement. Fears are heightening that the House will endorse the bill without altering several provisions deemed to threaten democracy and endanger human rights. par.2 The Jakarta Post, September 16, 2011 no verb base word class morphological process freq 1. 2. heighten threaten height noun threat noun - - Table 3.3 Examples of analysing the verbs found the frequency column is filled when the researcher finishes analysing all editorials The next step is answering the research problem. First, the researcher decomposed the affixed verbs so he can reveal the bases of the verbs. Then, the verbs were analysed by comparing the affixed verbs to the bases. The researcher observed the morphological process in forming the verbs and analysed the changing occurring during the process so that he could obtain the answer of his problem formulation. Since the example in table 3.3 does not show any morphological process, it is concluded that the affixation does not involve another morphological process. The final step of the research is concluding the results based on the research question. The conclusions showed the readers the bases of the affixed verbs in the editorials of The Jakarta Post. Besides, the results also showed the morphological processes which happened within the affixation. 30

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS