Women’s Language DEFINITION OF TERMS

as compared with women’s is that it is coarser and more direct Haas, 1979. Male and female language is different. Women, as a social group, have their own language characteristics Parab, 2015. For men, the focus is on sharing information, while women value the interaction process. Men and women possess different interactive styles, as they typically acquired their communicative competence at an early age in same-sex groups White, 2003. Women are both more standard-oriented and leading linguistic changes from above; men are more likely to prefer non-standard and conservative forms Fuchs Gut, 2012. Women leave more unfinished sentence as a demonstration of their indecisive and non-assertive mode of speaking. Women more often overlap the current speaker, while men’s speech is characterized by the lack of overlap Masaitiene, 2012. Women’s speech is said to contain more euphemisms, politeness forms, apology, laughter, crying, and unfinished sentences. Men on the other hand, are reputed to use more slang, profanity and obscenity and to talk more about sports, money and business Haas, 1979. Cross-linguistic examination has revealed a number of key areas of grammar and vocabulary where gender is displayed or indicated in various ways Romaine, 1999. In conclusion we can say that, in the term of vocabulary and grammar, men are likely to use slangs, obscene words, and simple sentences. Meanwhile, women are more likely to use intensifiers, forms of politeness and socially prestigious and lexical and syntactic forms. Without push aside men’s language, in this research, the writer only focused on the use of women’s language. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

2. Women’s Language Features

According to Parab 2015 there are four major features in women language. The first is in phonology, the second is in vocabulary, the third is in grammar and the last or the fourth is in conversational topic and style.

a. In phonology

In phonology, Parab, 2015 states that some features of women’s language are mainly present in pronunciation, pitch and tone. 1 Pronunciation Parab 2015 proposed that pronunciation provides the best evidence of gender-based language forms. Women tend to pronounce a word more correct than men while speaking. Women’s pronunciations are more close to British pronunciation’s standards. For t and r, women pronounce more easily. Thus we can see, women’s pronunciation are more correct and concise Jinyu, 2014. Usually, women’s pronunciation is better than men’s, such as the pronunciation of “-ing” and that can explain the reason why more girls choose to learn language as their major than boys Xia, 2013. Shuy 1969 found that 62,2 of men pronounced “-ing” in a wrong way, but only 28,9 of women did not pronounce right. 2 Pitch High pitch is one of the distinguished feature s of women’s language and women usually speak in higher pitch than men. Lakoff 1973 said that women PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI