Type of Research Data and Source of Data Sample and Sampling Technique Equipment of the Research

l CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Type of Research

In this research, the researcher applies a descriptive qualitative method. The aims of the research are to collect the data, to analyze the data and to draw conclusion. This is stated by Surakhmad that a descriptive method is a kind of research method using technique of searching, collecting, classifying, analyzing the data, interpreting them, and finally drawing the conclusion Surakhmad, 1994: 147. Yet, in a descriptive method, the data are collected, classified, analyzed, and then based on the data analysis, a conclusion is drawn Hadi, 1983:3.

B. Data and Source of Data

The source of data in a research refers to the subject from which the data are obtained Arikunto, 1998:107. In conducting this research, the researcher uses a film entitled White Chicks and the script of this film as source of data. The film is chosen since it has phenomena of the variety of compliments used by the characters. Moreover, there are different social functions of compliments expressed by the characters in the conversation of the film. The data in this research are the conversations containing compliments and compliment responses expressed by the characters in film White Chicks. li

C. Sample and Sampling Technique

Arikunto defines that sample is a part or representation of the population being observed 1998:109, whereas technique of sampling is a technique of choosing samples Hadi, 1983:75. This research employs total sampling technique. The researcher took all the dialogs containing compliments, verbal and non verbal compliment responses expressed by the characters in the film White Chicks found in the data as the samples of the research.

D. Equipment of the Research

In a qualitative research, the researcher is the main instrument since he conducts the whole research process Moleong, 1991:121. According to Arikunto 1998: 136, research equipment is a tool or facility that is used by the researcher to collect and process the data easier and better detail, complete and systematic. Yet, the researcher needs some equipment in conducting the research, such as a unit of personal computer. The uses of supporting equipments are as follows: a CD room. The researcher needs a personal computer installed CD room to play the VCD of the film, to rewind and to repeat particular scenes of the film entitled White Chicks in which the speech act of compliments expression occurs. b Monitor. The equipment is needed to display the film of White Chicks and it helps researcher to analyze the character gesture, circumstances etc. lii c Note. The researcher marks the transcript of the film White Chicks dialogs containing compliments, verbal and non verbal compliments responses that are found in the film.

E. Technique of Collecting Data