Woman Language Features in Recode World’s Technology Conference: A Sociolinguitics Studies

Authors

  • Deby Rahmawati UNIVERSITAS PADJADJARAN
  • Elvi Citra resmana Universitas Padjadjaran
  • Lia Maulia Indrayani Universitas Padjadjaran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31849/elt-lectura.v6i2.3122

Keywords:

sociolinguistics,, gender language,, women language features

Abstract

This research analyzes the women language features in giving public speeches in RECODE World’s Technology Conferences. The writer used Lakoff’s on Holmes (2013) theory to analyze the data. The writer applies descriptive qualitative method by Creswell (2014). Data for this reseach is women utterance during conference. Basen on theory by Lakoff, the author discover six women language features.The result of this research shown that there are six women language feature that appear, there are lexical hedges, intensifier, superpolite form, avoidance strong swear, empty adjective, and emphatic stress.

Keyword: sociolinguistics, gender language, women language features.

Author Biographies

  • Deby Rahmawati, UNIVERSITAS PADJADJARAN

    Master Degree of English Linguistic

    Faculty of Cultural Science

    Universitas Padjadjaran

  • Elvi Citra resmana, Universitas Padjadjaran

    Universitas Padjadjaran

  • Lia Maulia Indrayani, Universitas Padjadjaran

    Universitas Padjadjaran

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Published

2019-08-20

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching

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Woman Language Features in Recode World’s Technology Conference: A Sociolinguitics Studies. (2019). ELT-Lectura, 6(2), 186-196. https://doi.org/10.31849/elt-lectura.v6i2.3122