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4.2 Types of women’s speech features which occurs most frequently by the
main character in “Lucy”
Luc Besson’s movie.
Based on the transcribed data, the writer finds six women’s speech features
that used by Lucy which have been identified based on the theory women’s speech features proposed by Lakoff. According to the finding, the analysis below is
presented. Table 1 show the total of women’s speech features that used by Lucy.
Table 1
Women’s Speech Features Used by Lucy
WOMEN’S SPEECH FEATURES
LUCY CHARACTER
Lexical Hedges 9
Tag Question
Rising Intonation 1
Empty Adjective
Precise Colour Term
Intensifier 13
Hypercorrect Grammar 12
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Superpolite Form 3
Avoidance of Strong Swear Words
1
Emphatic Stress
TOTAL WOMEN’S SPEECH FEATURES
39
The total of women’s speech features which is used by Lucy is 39 utterances, from 166 utterances. It can be concluded the second statement of
problems that Lucy uses women’s speech features proposed by Lakoff. Based on the table above, it can be concluded
that the most women’s speech features uttered by Lucy is intensifier. It is used for thirteen times. Lakoff claimed
that intensifier is commonly used by women as her attempt to show their strong feeling about something. Women use intensifying devices to persuade their
addressee to take them seriously. It means that Lucy often has strong feeling about something. The explanations above the answer statement of the problems number
two. The second rank is hypercorrect grammar which is used for twelve times. Woman using hypercorrect grammar is to rise social status in the society so that
women use more standard speech as way of claiming such status and to see women as behavior model as an expectation from the society. Lexical hedges or fillers be
the third rank. It is used for nine times. Lakoff claimed that hedging devices explicitly signal lack of confidence. Women use hedging devices to express
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uncertainty. The next rank is superpolite forms which are used for three times. Lakoff claimed that women using superpolite forms are to behave and communicate
politely, to leave the decision to receive the request depend on the addressee without an attempt to impose what they want or appear in their mind. Rising intonation and
avoidance of strong swear words are used by Lucy for one times each type. The purpose of srising intonation is for being strengthened. While in avoidance o strong
swear words, women tend to use the softer of strong swear words. Four features which do not find in Lucy utterances are tag question, empty adjective, precise color
term, and emphatic stress. The purposes of appearing empathic stress are for
emphasizing certain words and for expressing something with own self-expression as purpose. Based on the analysis above, the writer concludes that: there are six
types of women’s speech features which are used by Lucy. They are intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, lexical hedges or fillers, superpolite forms, rising intonation
and avoidance of strong swear words. The most dominant of women’s speech feature
s used by Lucy is intensifier. Next, four types of women’s speech features which do not find in Lucy utterances. They are tag question, empty adjective,
precise colour term, and emphatic stress. Last, rising intonation and avoidance of strong swear words a
re the least of women’s speech features used by Lucy.
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CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
After presenting the result of analysis in the previous chapter, the conclusion and suggestions are taken in this part. The conclusion is drawn based on the
formulated statement of problems, while suggestion is intended to give information to the next researchers who are in doing further research in this area.
5.1. Conclusion
In this research, the writer concluded that the main characters of Lucy movie used women’s speech features proposed by Lakoff. The writer found only six types
of women’s speech features used by Lucy in her utterance. They are lexical hedges or fillers, rising intonation, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, superpolite forms,
and avoidance of strong swear words. After counting the data, the appearance is different each other. The appearance lexical hedges or fillers is nine times. Rising
intonation and avoidance of strong swear words appear in one times. Next, the appearance intensifier is thirteen times. Hypercorrect grammar appears in twelve
times and the last, superpolite forms appear in three times. There are differences in this research with previous researchers. The previous researchers, Dian Rosita
found nine types of women’s speech features, they are lexical hedges or fillers, tag question, rising intonation on declaratives, empty adjectives, precise colour terms,
intensifier, superpolite forms, avoidance of strong swear words and emphatic stress. Second, Isni Al-
Rofi’ found nine types of women’s speech features, they are lexical
