Background of the Study
have to be on their best behavior, linguistically speaking. In such circumstances, it is perfectly natural and right to use colloquial words and expressions and
contractions and to take occasional liberties with grammar. The second one is Formal Language is usually defined as the language official conversation, that
language agrees with the rules. The conversation feel relatively constrained and with best behavior.
Every person who gets conversations probably has more than one topic in their community. The type of the talk or genre that often discussed could be about
meeting is like the conversation about the employee with the boss or the same employees talking about the development of their company. Another genre might
be about academic is like the conversation between the student into another student also about the student with their teacher to talk about around the class or
assignment. The other genre that would be the most is probably casual. In this case the topic could be everything, such as: sport, hobbies, society, entertainment,
activities or soon. The causal genre conversation could be the same with gossip because in this case the topic not only about the same situation, but it could be
jump from the one topic to the other topic. Sociolinguistics is interesting in explaining why we speak differently in
different social context, and also concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning Holmes, 1992:1.
Sociolinguistic itself also be considered as the study of all aspect about society, because in sociolinguistic is focusing to explain about how language and society
can have a good relation to make perfect each other. Based on Coates, 1986,
sociolinguistic studies reveal that linguistic variation is not random but structured: structured linguistic variation us a direct consequence of the structured social
variation found in the speech community. The structure social variation found in the speech community can be explaining use more than one way.
The person who communicates each other could be men or women. As we know men and women use different style and way in communication. The
phenomenon occurs because between men and women, they grow up in different conditions that make different expectation, treatment from their close people.
Women and men speak differently in any community and recently sociolinguistics has begun to pay attention to the co-variation of language and sex.
Sexist language is concerned with the way language expresses both negative and positive stereotypes of both women and men Holmes, 1992:336.
The customers can described as person who visited some restaurants, hotels or other place to enjoying the facilities, food, or everything indeed.
Customers at Warung Santai are women and men. Both of them use different patterns of language to communicate each other in their conversation.
The phenomenon about the differences between women and men language in conversation is really interesting to observed and analyze. The first reason is
because this topic about analyzing conversation by customer has not been discussed by previous students. In the other reason analyzing the women and men
language in conversation is very interesting to do, because the people in this world both women and men always talk different style with their partner or their friends.
The topic they are discussed could be general topic or especially topic about something.