triyoga, arilia Woman Language Analysis In My Best Friend‘s Wedding Film: A Sociolinguistic Study. In: International Conference on Language, Culture and Civilization, 4th - 5th December 2012, The State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) of North Sumatra.
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Abstract
The style of language used by people can show their status, ethnicity, education,
gender and also age. But in Sociolinguistics, the major issue is the relationship
between sex and language. This paper tries to explain the term of hedging devices
and boosting devices as the characteristics of woman language found in the
characters‘ interaction in My Best Friend‘s Wedding film. This is a Sociolinguistics
approach which is the female characters‘ utterances in My Best Friend‘s Wedding
film as the object. The writer takes the data from My Best Friend‘s Wedding movie
script. In collecting the data, the writer applies note technique and transferring
technique. Then the data are classified according to particular classification;
devices and boosting devices. The findings show that in term of linguistics features
of the use of hedging devices; it is found that lexical hedge or filler represent the
most` appearance of hedging devices. This means the female character‘ utterances
show uncertainty. They are uncertain about what they are saying and explicitly sign
lack of confidence. In term of linguistics feature of the use of boosting devices, it is
found that intensifiers represent the highest frequency. They utter intensifiers in
order to boost the force and to strengthen the meaning of other words in their
utterances. Then, the social value found in this film is women status as subordinate
group. Woman as subordinate must speak carefully and politely. They use a
language which reinforces their relatively inferior position and that they are
colluding in their own subordination by how they communicate. They appear to lack
authority, conviction, and self confidence in their conversation.
Keywords: Hedging Devices, Boosting devices, Utterances, Intensifiers, Lexical
Hedge, Filler, Subordinate dan Inferior.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisi / Prodi: | Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan) > S1-English Education (S1-Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris) |
| Depositing User: | arilia triyoga |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2015 06:50 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2015 06:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/2410 |
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