different in terms of masculine and feminine morphology as Spolsky 1998:37-8 stated that some people believe when women
are involved in conversation, mostly they will discuss about the topic of home and activities related to it. On the other hand, men‟s
topic is closely related to several subjects, such as the outside world and economic activities.
Lakoff in Speer, 2003:22-23 identifies some differences between the language use and styles of men and women. First,
women have tendency of using a wider range of color terms than men in daily conversations. Second, women tend to speak or
express their thoughts without strong emotions. Third, men and women use different kind of adjectives to express their thoughts or
something. Fourth, women tend to use more declarative statements that are formed into a question by the use of a tag. Fifth, women
use more raising intonation in their conversation than men.
d. Solidarity and Politeness
When people use language, there are some considerations in their words choice. According to Wardhaugh 2006:260, those
considerations are what people want to say it, how to say it, the type of sentence, words and sounds that can unite the what and
how. As one of the purposes of language is to maintain relationship and solidarity between people, it is important to use language
properly.
To use language properly is often related to the politeness. Many people have difficulties in defining what politeness is.
Wardhaugh 2006:277 divides politeness into two kinds; positive and negative politeness. Positive politeness is used to build
solidarity like in offering friendship. Meanwhile, negative politeness can be shown by using indirectness, apologizing,
deference, and formality in language use. The way people address the other is a way to see how the
relationship between the speaker and addressee. Moreover, through the way people address others contain some meaning and affected
by several factors.
e. Language and Context
Language and context cannot be separated. Meaning of language uttered by speaker is determined by the context. The
existence of context is so important, because it is related to the social background which influences people in choosing words they
will use. It is inline with Kesckes and Horn 2006:75, who state that context significantly influence verbal communication,
especially in intercultural communication.
Dealing with context, there is a branch of linguistics which cannot be separated with the context. That branch is named as
pragmatics. Pragmatics cannot be separated with the idea of context, since pragmatics focuses on analyzing utterances in order
