This study investigates first utterances used by the male and female
attendants and whether their first utterances standard and non-standard. The writer
derives standard and non-standard from Kridalaksana's and Lumintaintang's et all
characteristics. The subject of this study is ten males and ten females of Tavern
Pub. This thesis uses qualitative approach because the writer attempts to obtain
the data, which she gets from the natural setting. To collect the data, the writer
records the first utterances used by the male and female attendants. Through the
analysis, the writer finds out that the form of first utterances used by the male and
female attendants can be an interrogative, imperative, exclamation, request, and
greeting. Moreover, the sex differences influenced the language varieties they
used whether standard and non-standard. In this case, the male attendants had
more tendencies to use non-standard than standard Indonesian, while the female
attendants tend to use standard than non-standard Indonesian.