CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
This thesis is made by applying the descriptive method, because the result of this thesis will describe the use of illocutionary acts found in The Proposal
movie. As Nawawi said 1993: 63: “Metode Deskriptif dapat diartikan sebagai prosedur pemecahan masalah yang diselidiki dengan menggambarkan
melukiskan keadaan subjek objek penelitian seseorang, lembaga, masyarakat, dll pada saat sekarang berdasarkan fakta-fakta yang tampak atau sebagaimana
adanya.” It means that the research aims to describe all the facts as it is without any
subjective improvisation
3.2 Data Collecting Method
The data are collected by applying the library research method. The data are collected from the dialogue of the two main characters The Proposal movie,
Margaret Tate and Andrew Paxton which is focused on the case of illocutionary act. Firstly, the movie is watched. Then the transcript of the movie is taken from
the internet. Next, the dialogues of Margaret Tate and Andrew Paxton are marked as the dialogues to be analyzed and classified into the types of illocutionary act
and also found out the perlocutionary act among the dialogues.
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3.3 Data Analysis Method
Some steps that are used to analyze the data are as follows: 1.
Collecting the data: picking out all the dialogue of the characters of the film.
2. Classifying the data: classifying the important data based on the scope of
the analysis. 3.
Identifying the data: characterizing the utterance based on which belong to one of the categories of illocutionary act.
4. Describing the data: making a brief description of the final result of the
research in the form of numbers or tables.
In counting the percentage of the data, Bungin’s formula 2005: 171-172 is used to find the category of illocutionary acts that occur mostly in The Proposal
Movie. The formula is:
n = percentage of illocutionary acts category Fx = individual frequency of illocutionary acts category
N = total number of all category
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
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