Women’s Linguistic Features in Two Dramas

Khoirot, Aifi Umdatun; Rohmah, Zuliati; Puspitasari, Desi

doi:10.15642/nobel.2016.7.1.49-64

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“…Super polite forms and hedges were also frequently used, implying that women are expected to be polite. This conforms to the findings of a number of previous studies suggesting that women are more polite than men and often mitigate their statements and impositions (Lakoff 1973;Bi 2010;Khoirot et al 2016;Matwick and Matwick 2018) Moreover, terms and adjectives exclusively used by females also exist in Disney animated movies. Again, this also corroborates Bi's (2010) findings on women using exaggerated adjectives in English, such as empty adjectives.…”

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Female Disney Characters’ Linguistic Features in the 1990’s

2021

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The present study aims to investigate female Disney characters’ linguistic features in the 1990’s. It studies sexist ideologies manifested through these characters’ language. The sample consists of three Disney animated movies from the 1990’s: Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas. The frameworks adopted to study female Disney characters’ language are Lakoff’s (2004b) forms of women’s language and Fairclough’s (1995) three-dimensional approach to CDA. The findings revealed that the linguistic features that mostly characterized female Disney characters’ language were hypercorrect grammar, super polite forms and hedges. They reflect the sexist stereotypicality of women’s language being slang-free and polite. They also used large stock of words related to their specific interests, empty adjectives and intensive ‘so’, which imply having stereotypical lexicon. The least linguistic feature used was tag questions. However, when used, they implied anticipation of being corrected by others. Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Disney, Gender, Women’s language.

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“…She concluded that such linguistic stereotypes shape the way we expect how men and women speak. Khoirot et. al.…”

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Female Disney Characters’ Linguistic Features in the 1990’s

2021

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“…Empty adjectives become one of the characteristics of women's speech since they reflect how women are uninvolved and out of power in uttering a sentence. Also, these linguistic feature indicates a speaker's approbation or admiration towards a certain subject (Khoirot, 2016). The researchers were able to identify only one (1) utterance of Agueda that shows an empty adjective as the linguistic feature.…”

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“…According to Khoirot (2016), Emphatic Stress is a linguistic feature of women that is used as a boosting device used to strengthen the meaning of an utterance. It has similarities with intensifiers since both reflect the use of absolute superlative.…”

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“…In other words, avoidance of strong swear words are avoiding the use of a strong expletive expression. It has been widely considered as an expression of powerful emotion (Eckert, 2003 cited in Khoirot, 2016). Rafi (2014) averred that in avoidance of strong swearwords, women usually use softer forms such us Oh, Dear!orDarn!while the men use stronger ones such as Dammit!…”

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The Language and Identity of Agueda in Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve: An Analysis of Linguistic Features and Stances

Juanillo

Labastida-Martinez

2020

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Language is an important device in the construction of an individual’s identity. However, Language not only identifies any particular individual but also sets its position inside the society. As a form of social behavior, language like other social behaviors, also distinguishes gender differences. This study investigates the linguistic features and the personal identity of Agueda in Nick Joaquin’s May Day Eve. This study can be used to apprehend how women were influenced by the society and the culture of the Philippines during the 1800s. The researchers use Lakoff’s Theory of Linguistic Features, and the Indexicality Principle by Bucholtz and Hall (2005) to analyze the language and identity of Agueda. Qualitative Content Analysis and descriptive research design are used to analyze thoroughly the utterances of Agueda which consist of linguistic features and stances. Based on the linguistic features and the stances analyzed, Agueda uses emphatic stress more to show assertiveness through her utterances, she also uses disalignment more, and she likes to position herself along the affective scale. The result of the study shows that Agueda is an assertive and strong willed young woman, who likes to do whatever she wants. Her utterances also show how resentful she has become after her marriage with Badoy. The conclusion can be drawn that language is an important factor in creating an identity of a person, and this identity can be formed through the stances and linguistic features, which are greatly affected by the society, culture, and people that surround an individual.

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Women’s Language Features on Utterances of Charlie’s Angels Movie

Nuringtyas,

Navila

2022

humaniora

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The study entitled Women's Language Features on Utterances of Charlie's Angels Movie seeks to examine women's language features and the reasons of using the features by the three main women character. The data was taken from the utterances of the Charlie's Angels (2019) movie. The researchers used Lakoff's hypothesis to investigate women's language features. Lakoff (1975) suggested ten language features for women, but this analysis only found nine features in this movie, namely lexical hedges or fillers, intensifiers, tag question, emphatic stress, rising intonation on declaratives, avoidance of strong swear words, super polite forms, empty adjectives, and hypercorrect grammar. The findings indicated that intensifiers appeared to be the most prominent attribute utilized among the three main women’s characters in the movie (45.4%), and the least feature is the tag question (1.81%). Regarding the reasons for using Women's Language Features as the most frequent feature in this movie, the feature occurs when the speakers try to give a strong opinion or persuade the other person. Furthermore, the reason of tag question occurs in this movie because to convenience the hearer about what the speaker’s said.

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Women’s Linguistic Features in Two Dramas

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Female Disney Characters’ Linguistic Features in the 1990’s

Female Disney Characters’ Linguistic Features in the 1990’s

The Language and Identity of Agueda in Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve: An Analysis of Linguistic Features and Stances

Women’s Language Features on Utterances of Charlie’s Angels Movie

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