extent of sexism involved and the history used by people nowadays in playing a role. In her research, Ahmad did not found as many examples of sexism in Bangia
as she found in English. She stated that one of the possible reasons was Bangia had not been studied extensively in this respect. As the result she found that the
best thing to be interested and to discuss sexist language was that as they make conscious decisions about what pronouns they would use, what jokes they would
tell or laugh at, how they would write their own names, or how they would begin their letters, they were forced to think about the underlying issue of sexism.
The study that would be done in this research was different from the previous studies. In this research, the writer focused on the use of sexist
expression in The Iron Lady movie’s dialogue. The study would investigate the sexist expression and stereotypes shown in the movie’s dialogues.
B. Review on Related Theories
In order to solve the problems in this research, the writer used the related theories that would be applied to the analysis. These theories would be used as a
ground of the research to help the researcher in proving the accuracy of the result.
1. Communicating with Language. Language is one of the ways to communicate. It is used to deliver
information in a particular purpose. There are two ways in delivering this information, direct speech and indirect speech. Direct speech is used by saying
exactly what we mean to the other and indirect speech for the other hand is used
by not telling exactly what we mean. In order to understand an indirect speech, we got to know about the context of the speech. Bonvillain in his book Language,
Culture, and Communication, The Meaning of Messages, Fourth Edition states that there are some factors that are used to understand speech action in contexts
in direct speech 2003: 77. a. Setting: The first factor is the setting time, place, background, etc where the
communicative events are occurred. b. Participants: The second is the participants who are expected to join the
events. Each member of the participants of a communicative event is conditioned by his or her role.
c. Topics: Next one is the topics of the conversation which is discussed in the events. The communicative event is “about something,” and all speech
behavior must be relevant to that issue. d. Goals: The last one is the goals or the purpose of the communicative event. A
speaker chooses words, tone of voice, facial expression, and gesture, and so on to accomplish their purpose.
In communication, people always have something that makes them say something or make them start a conversation. The things that may cause people to
say something or to react with some other way might be because of their attitudes or it also might because they have the motives. According to Koch,
“psychological proof appeals to the attitudes and motives of the audience”. People who have attitude and motive, tend to act in certain ways Koch 1995: 135.
a. Attitudes We learn attitudes in our daily life. Our attitudes which are formed about
favorable or unfavorable things give direction to our behavior causing uss to act in predisposed ways in different situations Koch 1995: 135.
b. Motives Things that are reasons or something that pull us to do something is called
motives. There are two kind of basic motives; they are physical motives and social motives. Physical motives refer to basic human drives, such as hungry, thirsty,
threatened, and so on. It is different from social motives. Social motives are learned. For an example, a baby learns to cooing, smiling, laughing, and the like,
win approval Koch 1995: 136. c. Specific Motive Appeals
Specific motive appeals are motive which is used to attract people. Some examples of specific motive appeals are; sex, security, approval, conformity,
success, creativity. The first one is sex. Sex plays an important role in persuasion area. In
advertisements and public entertainment, we usually found that sex is used to attract people.
The second one is security. Everyone does some activities in order to protect something, whether it is the wealth, life, family, or etc.
The third one is approval. A person might do kind of thing in order to be approved by the society or other people.
Next is conformity.
