video. It was delivered on Jun 13, 2014. The fourth is entitled Hillary Clinton Interviewed by Kara Swisher at 2015 Lead On Conference for Women. It was
delivered on February 24, 2015. The last video is entitled CNN Town Hall: Hillary Clintons Hard Choices that was delivered on June 17, 2014.
The data of the research problems will be analyzed based on Lakoff theory 1973 about features of women’s language. The methodology used in this
research is limited to discourse analysis. This research is done by analyzing the Hillary’s utterances in videos about her speeches and interviews.
F. Definition of Terms
In this research, there are terms that will be frequently used by the researcher. Those are about women’s language features based on Lakoff’s theory
1973 especially in speech and about who Hillary Clinton is. 1.
Women’s Language Features in Speech As people know, the language that is used by men and women are
different, especially when they are speaking. Women are considered as weak creatures so that many people assume that women’s language is also weak.
According to Scherer and Giles 1979 as cited in Edwards 2009, p. 134 “findings within a speech community reveal that women’s speech tends to use
standard language.” “Women are disempowered by being constrained to use “powerless” language, ways of speaking that simply are not very effective in
getting others to think or do what the speaker wants them to Lakoff, 1975 as cited in Eckert and Ginet, 2003, p. 159.
Based on Lakoff’s theory as cited by Fillmore, G. Lakoff, and Robin Lakoff 1974, there are ten features that are usually used by women in their
speaking. Those are lexical hedges or fillers, tag questions, rising intonations, empty adjectives, precise color terms, intensifiers, hypercorrect grammar, super
polite forms, avoidance of strong swear words, emphatic stress. 2.
Hillary Clinton The brief biography of Hillary was cited from website of U.S. Department
of State. The full name of Hillary is Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and people usually call or recognize her as Hillary Clinton. She was born in Chicago, Illinois
on October 26, 1947 to Dorothy Rodham and the late Hugh Rodham. She attended local public schools before graduating from Wellesley College and Yale
Law School, where she met Bill Clinton. She became a Minister of Foreign Affairs for four years from January 21, 2009 up to February 1, 2013.
In 2000, Hillary Clinton made history as the First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first woman elected state wide in New York. In
2006, Senator Clinton won reelection to the Senate, and in 2007 she began her historic campaign for President. In 2008, she campaigned for the election of
Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and in November, she was nominated by President- elect Obama to be Secretary of State. Secretary Clinton is the author of best-
selling books, including her memoir, Living History, and her groundbreaking book on children, It Takes A Village. She and Presid
ent Clinton reside in New York. In this year, 2016, she is one of presidential candidate in The United State of America.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
