Euphemism used in political articles in reuters. Com

Research Instrument

Research instrument is very important to obtain the result of the study. It is a set of methods, which is used to collect the data. The key or main instrument of this study is the researcher herself. She spends a great deal of time for reading and understanding political article in reuters.com especially its headlines that aimed to find out the types of euphemism, the styles of euphemism and the functions. Here, the researcher used field note to write some headlines from March 1 to March 31, 2008. Not all headlines were written by the writer, the researcher only took notes on headlines which are related with political topics.

6. Triangulation

In this research, triangulation was used to strength the data and supports the findings. Mills (1998) states “triangulation is of mind”. It means that the researcher herself set out to collect the data, recheck the analysis with double check findings, using multiple sources. Furthermore Denzim (Steinbach: 1998) identifies several types of triangulation, three of them are triangulation of data sources which involves the convergence of multiple data sources, methodological triangulation which involves the convergence of data from multiple data collection procedures, and investigators triangulation which involves multiple research in an investigation.

In this research, the researcher used triangulation of data sources and methodological triangulation concerning with investigator triangulation. The researcher used one informant to check the data she got from Reuters.com. The curriculum vita is in the appendix.

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter is only confined to the straightforward discussion and interpretation of the study. As has been mentioned in the chapter III, the data of the study are euphemism used in reuters.com. The writer would like to enroll out her finding about types, styles, and functions of euphemism.

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