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THE ANALYSIS OF A WOMAN’S LANGUAGE OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN HARDWICKE & REED’S THIRTEEN MOVIE SCRIPT
Rahem, Abd Wahed, 2018, The Analysis of A Woman’s Language of The Main Character in Hardwicke & Reed’s Thirteen Movie Script, Undergraduate, Thesis, English Teaching Learning Program (TBI), Instute of Islamic College (IAN) Madura, Advisor: Drs. Mosleh Habibullah, M. Pd.
Key word: Character, Language and Gender, Women’s Language, Woman’s Speech Feature, Movie, Hardwicke & Reed’s Thirteen Movie
This study investigated the major feature of woman language used by the main characters of Thirteen movie. There were two problems analyzed in this study. They were (1) What is woman’s language features used by the main character in Hardwicke & Reed’s Thirteen Movie Script. (2) How the way to say woman’s language features of the main character in Hardwicke & Reed’s Thirteen Movie Script. The design used in this study was content analysis because the data were analyzed and described in the form of words and sentences. The data were taken from the conversations uttered by the main characters of “Thirteen” movie and movie script in order to get exact utterance. Then, the data were identified and analyzed based on the types of women’s speech features based on Lakoff’s theory. Furthermore, the selected data were analyzed based on social factors theory proposed by Holmes. The findings show that not all types of women’s speech features were used by the main characters of Thirteen movie. The main character, Tracy used five types of women speech features, they are rising intonation, lexical hedge, intensifier, super polite form and tag question. There were five features which were not used by her, they were empty adjectives, hypercorrect grammar, avoiding using strong expletive, emphatic stress and precise discrimination. In addition the used of women speech features is related with the social condition in their society.
This study talk about woman language feature that the researcher suggests the reader to read this study because this study giving new knowledge and concept to reader about language features that used by woman. For institution the researcher suggests to put this study in the library because it can be reference for college students. This study gives the example of women’s language that is used in the movie. Thus, the researcher suggests the further researcher to analyze women speech feature in real live conversation. It can be suggested to analyze the conversation of women who have important role in the society such as women with religious competent in the society. Then, they can analyze the data using the comparison between the concept of women speech features and the concept of women in Islam. Thus, it will be more challenging since there is no research that analyze women speech features used the concept of women in Islamic perspective.
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