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1.6 Research Method
This study used descriptive qualitative method. The aim of descriptive was to explain, classify, and analyze the data from some instruments. Moreover, the
qualitative was used to investigate the social phenomenon. This study applied qualitative method that used natural setting to describe the factual phenomenon.
The subject of this research was taken from „The Parent Trap‟ film which was directed by Nancy Meyers. The data obtained the whole text of the film
script. The script was chosen as the data source because the script applied various kinds of idiomatic expression. This film released on February, 1997. The
researcher watched the film and then read its trascription. There were some steps in conducting this research. The first step was
reading and understanding whole „The Parent Trap‟ film script. The second step
was identifying the idioms used in the film script. The third step was classifying stage. The data collected were classified into some types of idioms based on
theory from Hockett 1958. The fourth step was analyzing data. After classifying the data, the researcher tried to find the meaning or message based on the context
in the film.
1.7 Clarification of Key Terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding on the terms used in this study, the researcher gives the definition of the following key terms:
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Contextual meaning: is the meaning of words according to the situations
in which they are used Lyons, 1984:143. 2.
Idiomatic expression: is a type of informal English where its meaning is
different from the meaning of the words in the expression, or according to Fromkin 1987, “idiomatic expression is a kind of words such as fixed
phrase, consisting of more than one word, with one meaning cannot be inferred by knowing the m
eanings of the individual words.” 3.
Film: is a media to transfer a message. Functions of film are to entertain
and – the most important thing – to gain or to deliver the information to
the society. Moreover, Imanjaya 2006: 29 states in his book that film as social archives catches a spirit of the era of the society in that time.
1.8 Organization of the Paper
