A Sociolinguistic study of women's speech features used by the female VJs of MTV Indonesia - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

Lakoff (1975) says that women use language which reinforces their
subordinate status: They are colluding in their subordination by the way they speak.
Therefore, Lakoff proceeds to draw up a list of features which supposedly represent
typical female discourse, as distinct from male talk. Based on her opinion, those
speech features express uncertainty and lack of confidence. This study is held to
verify the use of women?s speech features by female VJs of MTV Indonesia. The
reason of choosing MTV Indonesia?s female VJs is because they are totally different
from the eastern women in general, and the differences seem to be very interesting to
be noted.This study of women?s language is elaborated into the dominant and the
least features used. In this study, the writer notes and takes records the conversations
between two female VJs of Mtv Indonesia while they are presenting the programs.
From this observation, by separating each utterance, the writer is able to identify the
kinds of speech feature, the most common features and the least feature used by
female VJs of MTV Indonesia. From the findings, the writer found that both VJ
Nirina and VJ Denise adopted women?s speech features. The most common feature
used by VJ Nirina and VJ Denise is lexical hedges or fillers. The least features used
by VJ Denise are tag question, "superpolite" form and avoidance of strong swear
words. The least feature used by VJ Nirina was "empty" adjectives. From the
findings, the writer can conclude that both of them might have tendency to be lack of
self-confidence. The findings show that Robin Lakoff as the pioneer in the finding of
women?s speech features theory in 1975, still can be considered as appropriate used
until now on. It shows that Robib Lakoff is a smart and diligent person.

Contributor
• (88-011) Ester Harijanti Kuntjara
• (94-029) Aylanda Hidayati Dwi Nugroho

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

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Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011293/ING/2004; Cecilia A. (11400147)
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