9 Avoidance of Strong Swear Words
Swearing is kinds of interjection that can express extreme intensify. It has been widely considered as an expression of very strong emotion. It is viewed as potent
language and can indeed sometimes achieve impressive effect. For examples Oh, my God., Not that youre a whore Youre not a whore., and so on.
10 Emphatic Stress
Along with tag question, Lakoff identified that “the use of a question intonation on sentence that are not question as a central she characterized as women’s and
powerless or weak.” This question intonation has a high rising tone at the end of the sentence Eckert and Ginet, 2003, p.174. Women tend to use words which are
used to emphasize the utterance or strengthen the meaning of an utterance. For examples BEST NIGHT ever, He is AWFUL., and so on.
B. Theoretical Framework
This section presents the elaboration how the theories are used to conduct the research. The researcher used Lakoff’s theory about women’s language
features to analyze the scripts of Hillary’s speeches and interviews. In analyzing women’s language features in Hillary’s utterances, the researcher examined the
ten features of women’s language: lexical hedges or fillers, tag question, rising intonation, empty adjective, precise color term, intensifiers, hypercorrect
grammar, super polite form, avoidance of strong swear words, and emphatic stress.
In selecting and categorizing the Hillary’s utterances, the examples of each feature in women’s language features can be preferable to be used. The theory of
speech and interview in public speaking communication and women’s language in language and gender elaborated in previous subchapter would support Lakoff’s
theory about women’s language. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researcher explains about the methodology that is used to answer the formulated problems in this research. There are five parts in this
chapter. They are research method, research subject, research instruments and data gathering, data analysis technique, and lastly research procedure.
A. Research Method
This research analyzes the features of women’s language based on Lakoff’s theory 1973 that used by Hillary Clinton in her utterances in speeches
and interviews. The analysis is based on the videos and the transcripts of the videos. In order to analyze videos and the transcripts, the researcher used
qualitative method. Qualitative research is new research method because the existence of this method is not long as quantitative research. Based on Strauss and
Corbin 2003, p. 4 as cited in Afrizal 2015, p. 12 qualitative research is a type of research methods which the researchers do not use statistic procedures to get
the results of the research. According to Afrizal 2015, p. 17 in qualitative research, the data are
generally in words form written and spoken. It is supported by theory of Ary, Jacobs, Razavieh 2002, p. 22 that there are eight types of qualitative research.
They are ethnography, case studies, document or content analysis, naturalistic observation, focused interviews, phenomenological studies, and grounded theory.
