High Power Relation of The Speaker High – Low Category Low Power Relation of The Speaker Low – High Category

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Chapter five consists of two sections, namely the conclusions and the recommendations. The conclusions will summarize the major findings from the chapter four. The recommendations will present some recommendations related to speech style.

A. Conclusions

This research analyzes Angelina Jolie‟s utterances in the movie. There are two problems formulated in this research . The first problem formulated is „Which features of women‟s and men‟s speech are found in Angelina Jolie’s utterances?‟ From the data analyzed, there are four features that belong to women‟s speech found from Angelina Jolie‟s utterances. Those features are attention to the relationship level, conversational maintenance work, responsiveness, and tentativeness. Equality and showing support were two features of women‟s speech that were not shown in Angelina‟s utterances. From Angelina‟s utterances, there are fourteen utterances that are considered as women‟s speech see Table 3.. The researcher also found six features that belong to men‟s speech in Angelina‟s utterances. T he six features of men‟s speech, namely status and control, instrumentally, conversational dominance, assertive, abstract, and not highly responsive. The three dominant features of men‟s speech in Angelina‟s utterances were status and control, instrumentality and not highly responsive. In the movie, 73 there are fifty three utterances by Angelina Jolie that are considered as men ‟s speech, with direct and assertive as the most used feature see Table 4.. The second problem in this research is „What are the factors that affect Angelina Jolie‟s speech style in Mr. and Mrs. Smith Movie?‟ There are two factors that affect Angelina Jolie‟s speech style, namely power relation and social situation. There are three categories of power relation, namely high power relation of the speaker High -Low, low power relation of the speaker Low – High, and same or equal relation of the speaker. The three categories are determined by some factors, such as age, gender, and position at work. In this research, the power relation that mostly used by the character is same power relation of the speaker see Appendix C. The social situation is the external factors that affect the way people talk. There are three defining features that affect the way people talked, namely place, role relation, and topic. The defining characteristic that affects Angelina Jolie‟s utterances is topic see Appendix D. From the result of the analysis of the data, the researcher concludes that Mr. and Mrs. Smith the movie can be a useful teaching material related to sociolinguistics. The students can learn about kind of speech style, the factors that affect someone speech style and issues related to gender and language. By analyzing the characters‟ utterances, the learner can learn many things related to sociolinguistics issues and psychological literature about gender and language.