Formal or informal context in conversation

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter deals with the research methods of the study. It consists of research approach, data and data source, techniques of data collection, and techniques of data analysis.

3.1 Research Approach

The writer used descriptive qualitative method in her research. In analyzing this topic, the writer applied a qualitative research particularly to describe and interpret the collected data taken from Shane Filan’s albums. From the data, the writer classified the words, phrases, and sentences into eleven types of context that are used in each song, then identified them into contextual meaning and described the meaning. A qualitative method was appropriate to this study because the aims of this study to find the context in a lyric and describe the meaning of the lyric through its contextual meaning.

3.2 Data and Data Source

The data sources were the text of lyrics on Shane Filan’s songs. The data analyzed in this study were words, phrases, and sentences which had contextual meaning. The data was taken from album “You and Me” in 2013