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3.3 Data Collection
As this study uses qualitative method of investigation, the researcher becomes the main instrument for collecting the data. Wardoyo 2003: 340 suggests that data collection
in the study of discourse is conducted through close reading. The first thing to do was transferring downloading the articles from the sources to be ready for analysis. The data
were obtained from The Al Jazeera on-line, which is available at http: www.aljazeeranews.com
?. Then, each of the articles was set out in its entry for a quick
read through.
3.4 Unit of Analysis
This research is intended to investigate the attitudes used to express feelings in the news articles. The appraisal system analysis leads to the analysis of the interpersonal
meanings realized through the tenor of the discourse. This thesis is focused on the realization of interpersonal meanings through words or phrases of appraisal devices to
express the attitudes and feelings in the text. Therefore, the unit of analysis in the study is
appraisal device . At this level the news articles is analysed for the appraisal devices to
describe how the appraisal system is applied in the news articles.
3.5 Data Analysis
To come to the analysis of the attitudes used in news articles, several steps need to be carried out. The following is the procedure of the data analysis.
a. Closely reading the news articles for comprehensive understanding.
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Reading the news articles closely will come up with comprehensive understanding.
b. Breaking up the news articles into chunks or clauses for further analysis. This is the process of identifying clause boundaries in the text and breaking up of
the text into individual clauses. The clauses in the news articles are often complex – two or more clauses joined together in a clause complex. Based on the
identification of clause boundaries, these complex clauses are then broken up into individual clauses for the purpose of analysis.
c. Analysing each of the clauses based on the appraisal system network. In this stage, appraisal system network as described in Chapter II is carefully
applied to exhaustively analyse the clauses.
3.6 Sample Analysis of the Text
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