Definition of Terms INTRODUCTION

application. Lakoff concludes that from a man’s point of view such fine distinctions are trivial and beneath their notice. Rather than simple language, vocabulary is extended to use descriptive language. Women describe or name something on a detail description. The walls should be cerise, with a royal blue tracer. Instead of straightly saying “blue” in that sentence, women tend to picture it on detail by adding royal and tracer. g. Intensifiers According to Lakoff 1975, women use some intensifiers on their speeches to state how strong their feeling is para. 55. They feel it strongly but they do not want to show how strong it is. I like him very much or I like him so much are to express that the girl likes the boy in a great extent. The word very, really and so are the intensifiers. h. Direct quotations The words that people said are often quoted, even quoting people who quote other people. Then she said that he said, I wont do it. So I said, Why not? Women like to quote what other people say to them. Lakoff argues that this feature is expressed by them in purpose to avoid misunderstand on another’s idea. Woman explains the real situation. i. Hypercorrect Grammar Lakoff claims that women are generally viewed as being the preserves of literacy and culture. This reason leads to the fact that the use of “singin’, goin’ and some other drop g sound are more likely to be expressed by boys. Another example occurs when the women tend to say I will rather than say I’ll. Women tend to speak grammatically correct. j. Lack of humor This feature is in which women are not used to talk humorous things. They are really careful to image in society. Women do not like to be seen unserious. They want to show that their existences are also worth as men. This feature indicates their social status in society. They also want to be listened when they speak their mind up. Coates 2004 also did research on women’s language features. He explains that there are four features which are typically female as citied in Sofie Jakabsson, 2010, p. 4. The first is hedges. Adding the idea of Lakoff, Jenifer Coates explains that the use of hedges as the first feature is not only as a sign of weakness. Coates adds that hedging device can be scrutinized evaluative others. In tag question case, Coates says that women like to use tag question rather than men which are divided into modal tags and affective tags 2004, p. 90. The next feature is minimal responses. In mixed conversations, women tend to express minimal responses to support men Coates, 2004, p. 87. The last that is stated by Coates 2004 is questions. “research findings so far suggest that women use interrogative forms more than men and that this may reflect women’s relative weakness in interactive situation : they exploit questions in order to keep conversation going” p.93. Holmes 2001 categorizes the ten lists of Lakoff’s women language features into two groups. The first is those ‘linguistic devices which may be used