Women’s Language Features Used by Stephanie and Emily in A Simple Favor Movie

Tara, Hanifah (2019) Women’s Language Features Used by Stephanie and Emily in A Simple Favor Movie. Other thesis, Universitas Darma Persada.

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Abstract

This sociolinguistic-based research is aimed to examine the features and functions of women’s language used by characters Stephanie and Emily from A Simple Favor movie. The writer elaborates the theory of women’s language features by Robin Lakoff (1973) namely (1) lexical hedges or fillers, (2) tag questions, (3) rising intonation, (4) empty adjectives, (5) precise color terms, (6) intensifiers, (7) hypercorrect grammar, (8) superpolite form, (9) avoidance of strong swear words, and (10) emphatic stress, and combines it with the theory of women’s language functions by Judy Pearson (1985) which refer to implicit meanings. The writer uses the qualitive research method and focuses on the utterances performed by Stephanie and Emily which taken from the movie and its scripts.

Item Type:	Thesis (Other)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Gender, women’s language features, women’s language functions
Subjects:	300 Social Science/Ilmu Sosial > 306.44 Sociolinguistics/Sosiolinguistik
Divisions:	Fakultas Bahasa Dan Budaya > Bahasa dan Kebudayaan Inggris
Depositing User:	Fachry Al-Tolah Perpustakaan
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2020 13:33
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2020 13:33
URI:	http://repository.unsada.ac.id/id/eprint/1455

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