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1. Choosing The Movie
The first step was choosing the suitable movie. The researcher conducted a study about Singapore English, so the researcher chose a Singaporean movie
entitled Ah Boys to Men. This movie uses English, especially SCE as its main language. The researcher only took two movies because Ah Boys to Men 3 could
not complete this research. Ah Boys to Men 3 uses Mandarin as its main language.
2. Making the Movie Transcription
The second step, the researcher made the movie transcription of Ah Boys to Men 1
and 2, which helped the researcher found out the discourse particles ah and lah easily. Since the original movie transcription was not downloadable on
the internet, the researcher had to make the transcription. On the internet, there was only Indonesian transcription for Ah Boys to Men 1. Besides, there were
Indonesian and English transcriptions of Ah Boys to Men 2. In making the original transcription, the researcher found the difficulties in what the speaker said,
because, in fact, Singaporeans speak quite fast and use Singapore accent. Thus, the researcher had to repeat the movie several times to catch what the actors and
actresses say.
3. Listing the Sentences which Contain Discourse Particles ah and lah
After the researcher finished the transcription, the researcher went into the next step in listing the sentences, which contained discourse particles ah, and lah.
In this step, the researcher also did the selection toward the sentence which PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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contained ah, and lah. The sentence which is too short and spoken in Mandarin cannot meet the criteria to be the research object.
4. Making the Interpretation
The researcher made some interpretations of each sentence that contained discourse particles ah and lah. The interpretation was used to find the meaning of
sentences in Standard English. The result of the interpretation can be seen in Appendix A, B, C, and D.
5. Analyzing the data
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