Functions and speech features in gossiping produced by female students of English department Petra Christian university - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This study deals with the functions and speech features of gossip produced by female
students in Petra Christian University. Deborah Jones in Deborah Cameron?s book The
Feminist Critique of Language stated that gossip is divided into five ele ment : setting,
participant, topic, functions, and features. In her campus, the writer notices that many
female students often gossip to each other when they hang out in the corridors in the
spare time. They often laugh, talk seriously, even decide to go somewhere together after
gossiping. It seems that the content and the way of speaking in the gossip have made
them interested in the conversations. Based on this fact, in this thesis, the writer focuses
on this case, to find out the use of speech features in the functions of gossip. In order to
identify the data, the writer needs some theories relating to the study itself. Regarding this
matter, the writer employs Deborah Jones? women?s gossip and Robin Lakoff?s speech
features as her main theories, and puts Janet Holmes? gossip as the supporting theory.
The data collected are linguistic data, in this matter female?s gossip. The analysis itself is
split into three major points as follows : gossip functions, gossip speech features, and the
use of speech features in every function of gossips. By analyzing the data, the writer tries
to infer the interpretation as the conclusion of the study. The writer may conclude that
meaningless particle is a kind of speech feature which is mostly used by female students
in go ssiping. On the other hand, the most gossip function which is often discussed is
chatting, then followed by scandal, bitching, and house-talk. Generally most of the
speech of the participants are only asking each experience, sharing their feelings, and
talking about trivial things.

Contributor
• (88-011) Ester Harijanti Kuntjara
• (96-002) SUBANDI DJAJENGWASITO

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

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 1089/ING/2002; Maya Dwi Devita Anggraini (11498040)
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