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of this method is to draw the explanation of what is being studied in the rich detail to help someone who does not experience it understand. Qualitative research is in
the form of a narrative description and an interpretation of phenomena. Further, this research used discourse analysis since it studied the use of
language especially the speech details. Gee 2010 states that “a discourse analysis
is based on the details of speech and gaze, and gesture and action or writing that are arguably deemed relevant in the context and that are relevant to the arguments
the analysis is attempting to make”. Discourse analysis is an interpretation of the interpretative work that people have done in the certain context. Therefore, any
speech data can be transcribed in more or less details to help people interpret the data. The researcher used the descriptive discourse analysis for this research. In
descriptive discourse analysis, the language is described in order to understand how it works and reveals its meaning.
B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted this research for four months. It was started on February 2016 until June 2016. The researcher chose the data source of the
research on February 2016. The data was a movie script entitled Spy and the main character, Susan Cooper, was selected to be observed. In April 2016 the
researcher transcribed Susan’s conversation from the movie. After that, the
researcher classified the types of swear words and found the motives of swearing used by Susan Cooper from April to June 2016.
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C. Data Source
The data source in this research was a movie transcript entitled Spy. The transcript was got from www.subscene.co.in. After finding the transcript, the
researcher checked whether the transcript was correct and suitable to the utterances in the movie or not. The researcher also named the dialogue based on
the characters who spoke because the original transcript did not provide the characters’ name. After that, the swear words used by Susan Cooper were taken as
the data.
D. Data Gathering Technique
In gathering the data there were five steps taken by the researcher. First, the researcher watched the movie. Watching the movie was done fifth times in
order to make a deep understanding about the movie. Second, the researcher searched for the transcript of the movie on the internet. Third, the researcher
looked at the transcript and collected some dialogues which contain the discussed features. Fourth, after the data was collected, the researcher classified the data into
some categories based on its features using a table. The last, the researcher analyzed each types and motives used in the movie.
E. Data Analysis Technique
After collecting the data, the researcher started to analyze the data. In this research, the data were analyzed by adapting Creswell
’s 1998 Spiral data analysis theory. There were three steps in analyzing the data.
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Organization In identifying major organizing ideas, the researcher needed to make some
categorization. Therefore, the researcher searched the utterances which contain of swear words in the script. The researcher broke down the script into smaller units.
The smaller units can be the form of a sentence or individual words. 2.
Describing, Classifying and Interpreting In a detailed description, the researcher described what was seen in the
movie and took further action by classifying the types and the motives. In the classification, the researcher took the qualitative information. Then the researcher
made some categories of information. After that, the interpretation was done to make sense of the data and read the meaning of the data. In this research, the
researcher described the data by making categories in the form of tables. After that the researchers interpreted the data. Table 3.1 is the table used by the
researcher to classify the types of swear words and the motives of swearing used by Susan Cooper in the Spy movie.
Tabel 3.1 Format of the Table of the Types and Motives of Swear Words in the Spy Movie
No Code
Time Dialogue
Swear Words
Types Motives
Explanation E
S A
B S
H S
A U
S P
M S
M L
M
1.
ES-PM 00:22:30,
016 Susan: No, no, no
Damn it Fine? Damn
.
2.
ES-PM 01:03:46
Rayna: Looks like you ate a box of crayons.
Susan: Damn it. Damn
Total
