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2010: 9. The collected data of this thesis is gathered through the document analysis. According to Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, and Razavieh 2010, document
analysis or content analysis, analyzes and interprets recorded material to learn about specific data. The material could be public records, textbooks, letters, films,
tapes, diaries, themes, reports, or other documents. This study would like to analyze the utterance from the participants’ conversation taken from Two Broke
Girls TV Series, Episodes 1 from Season 1 to Season 5.
1. Data Collection
According to Brown and Rodgers 2002: 6, before anything useful can be done with research data, you will need to compile your data. Compiling
data means putting all the data together in one place in a way that you can more easily analyse and interpret the data. The method of collecting data in
this study was observation method. The data collection of the present research began with the identification.
All utterances from the script of Two Broke Girls TV Series Episodes 1, Season 1 to 5 were identified by echoic mention in each utterance, in order to
list the sarcastic utterances treated as the data. This step was the first step necessarily conducted in this study. After the sarcastic utterances were listed,
they were then analyzed to reveal the purpose of sarcasm. Then, the sarcastic utterances are classified based on their purpose. This step would answer the
first problem formulation. Each category of the purpose of sarcasm revealed
from the latest step was then elaborated, in order to find out how the sarcastic utterances remarks are understood by the hearer. As already mentioned
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earlier, the elaboration of the sarcastic utterances will be examined by applying the pragmatic approach related to presupposition, co-text and
context.
Table 1. Data Findings : Sarcastic Utterances Based on Purposes
Purposes of Sarcasm
Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4
Season 5 Total
Group Affiliation
1 -
2 1
1
5
Sophistication 6
4 5
5 4
24
Evaluation 4
4 3
1 4
16
Politeness 4
2 2
3 3
14
Persuasive Aspect
2 1
- 2
4 9
Retract ability 1
1 -
- -
2 Total
18 13
12 12
16 70
2. Data Analysis
In analyzing the data, the writer needs some steps to be done before drawing a conclusion. First step is by identifying the collected data using
Attordo’s theory in his article Humor and Irony in Interaction: From Mode Adoption to Failure of Detection. The writer uses
Attordo’s theory to know the purposes of sarcastic utterance said by the characters in Two Broke Girl
TV Series. Second step is to do the conversational analysis by finding out whether
the sarcastic utterances are bound with co-text or context. Third step is that the examination about what is the metamessage beyond the sarcastic
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utterances. This will need a pragmatic approach to know the presupposition between the speaker and also the hearer. After that, the writer will find out
whether the intention of the speaker clearly understood or not by the hearer. If it is not clearly understood, some factors causing the misunderstood will be
revealed. The fourth step is organizing all of the collected data that have been
analyzed in the table which is placed in appendices pages to make them easier to be explained systematically.
