Approach of the Study

always been like this, fuss fuss fuss. You must find something better to do with your time. It’s the most unattractive in a woman. When I was your age the last thing I wanted to do was fuss around my mother” 00:14:06. The utterance above came out when Margaret and her daughter, Carol, was having a debate. Carol complained about Margaret’s action to hang out alone. The debate started when Carol said, “I hear you went out today… You mustn’t go out on your own Mummy. We’ve talked about that” 00:13:46. Carol worried about Margaret’s action because she thought Margaret’s action was too risky. Margaret did not realized that she was no more a Prime Minister and that she was too old already to go out by herself. Therefore, when Carol was complaining about her action, she believed that Carol did it because she loved to complain about the small thing. The explicit meaning which contained the idea of sexist language could be seen in the end of the debate, when Margaret tried to control her temper and tell Carol that she did not like Carol’s attitude which always complains about small things, she used phrases like “you always been like this, fuss fuss fuss” and “it’s the most unattractive in women” in datum number 4. These two phrases were used because the word ‘fuss’ in the first phrase is represented by the word “it” in the second phrase. Therefore, as the conclusion, what the meaning of utterance in datum number 4 was that complaint about small thing fussy is the most unattractive in women. Based on what Mills said about the meaning of sexist language that had been written in chapter 2, datum number 4 is considered sexist because it shows unfair distinction between the sexes. It had been written in the previous paragraph that the meaning of utterance in datum number 4 was that complaint about small thing fussy is the most unattractive in women, which means that ‘fussy’ is a minus point that owned by women only women. The utterance in datum number 4 might not be considered as sexist language if the word ‘women’ is changed into ‘human’ because if it is changed into ‘human’, the meaning would be more neutral. b. Datum number 7 Margaret: A man might call it fiscal responsibility, a woman might call it good housekeeping 00:17:52. The utterance in datum number 7 appeared when Margaret was joining a dinner with parliament members. When they were talking about the economic problem in Dartford, Margaret said, “I know much more than those who never lived on a limited income. Just like the man or woman on the street, when I am short one week, I have to make economies the next” 00:17:38. After hearing what Margaret said, one of the parliament members argued “Nothing like a slice of fiscal responsibility” 00:17:50 and datum number 7 came out as the reaction of the male guest’s argument that the writer had written earlier. It could be seen that the datum showed the explicit meaning of the utterance. In the first phrase of the datum, the speaker said that ‘a man might call it fiscal responsibility’, while in the second phrase of the datum, the speaker said that ‘a woman might call it a good housekeeping’. Both of the word ‘it’ in datum number 7 represented the economic problem. The economic problem that a man