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only responded it with minimum cues and some expressions with a gesture that showed he knew nothing about it.
The researcher summarizes Angelina Jolie‟s utterances from all the
dialogues that included as women‟s speech features in the table below.
Table 3. Features of Women’s Speech
No Women’s
Speech Angelina Jolie’s Utterances
Time To
tal
1. Attention to
the relationship
level Nice. So what did you decide?
01:01:40,493 4
So what do you want, John? 01:02:23,286
Why is it you think we failed? Cos we were leading separate lives? Or was it all
the lying that did us in? 01:04:09,142
And why are you telling me this now? 01:06:58,353
2. Conversation-
al maintenance
work How was work?
00:12:36,675 4
Yeah? How‟d you do 00:23:15,981
How was Atlanta? 00:43:59,224
Big deal? 00:44:07,148
3. Tentativeness
But, because, is, like, one very little, or is one nothing? Because... You
know, technically speaking, the zero would be nothing
00:01:37,390
4
Pretty honest. I mean... It‟s not like I
lie to him or anything. 00:15:58,62
7 Wasn‟t l?
01:04:40,507
Do l?
00:58:23,171 4.
Responsivene ss
What did you think of Dr. Wexler? His questions were a bit wishy-washy.
00:09:49,466 2
What do you think? 00:12:47,852
5. Equality
- 6.
Showing support
-
Total utterances of women’s speech
14
From the table, it can be seen that there were fourteen utterances that were considered as
women‟s speech. Angelina used four features of women speech out of six features. The most used feature in this movie is attention to the relationship
level and conversational maintenance work with four as the total utterances of
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each feature. The table also shows that Angelina Jolie used none of the features of equality and showing support in the movie.
b. The Expression of Men’s Speech Used by Angelina Jolie
There were six features of men‟s speech that were found and used by Jane
out of six features. The features were directive and assertive, instrumentality, status and control, conversational dominance, not highly responsive, and abstract.
1. Direct and Assertive
Men‟s speech is more direct, forceful, and authoritative rather than women‟s speech because men aim to take and hold their position when they talke.
In the movie, there were 23 expressions found from the Angelina‟s utterances,
described as follows:
Dialogue 13
John : Yeah, or we can just keep the old ones, then we don‟t have to change a
thing. Jane
: We talked about this. You remember?
John : I remember. I remember cos we said we‟d wait.
Jane : If you don‟t like „em, we can take „em back.
John : OK. I don‟t like „em.
Jane :
You’ll get used to ‘em.
This conversation happened after John came from his work. Jane bought new curtains and told John her experience while buying the curtain. She told him
about her opinion to change the decoration in their house because of the new curtain, but John did not agree with
Jane‟s opinion. He thought that the old design was better and that means they did not need to change anything. Jane wanted
everything was done as what she planned. She said “We talked about this. You
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remember?” to persuade John forcefully, but he did not want to change his mind. Then Jane said that she would take the curtain back if he did not like it in order
that he would feel guilty and changed his mind. In the end, Jane forced her decision on her husband to use the new curtain by saying that he would get used
to it, even though John said that he did not like the curtain.
Dialogue 14
Jane‟s : Yesterday‟s op: one kill, one agent in protective custody.
Jane :
We’ll get him out tomorrow.
Jane‟s : Two cases of G-40s. The grenade launchers are here.
Jane : Order more. All right. Go, Jas.
Jasmine : The target‟s name is Benjamin Danz, aka “The Tank”.
Jane : You serious?
Jasmine : Yeah. He‟s being moved across the border to a federal facility. The only point
of vulnerability is just south of the border. Jane
: I want GPS and SAC of the canyon, and the weather report for the last three days
This dialogue happened in Jane‟s office between Jane and her team members. Jane came to the office and her team reported the current situation in
the office. There were three utterances found and categorized as as sertive. Jane‟s
first utterance was categorized as assertive because she gave one of her team members an order that means the way she talked was direct and authoritative
toward them . Jane‟s second and third utterances also demonstrated the same
message. She gave her team members some orders and they were authoritative, direct, and forceful.
Dialogue 15
Jane : I wanted to know who that bitch is. Get me that tape.
Jane‟s : Jane. Jane
: Get me that tape. What?
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This conversation happened in Jane‟s office after she failed to kill the target. Jane used three imperative statements when she asked one of her team
members to give her the video recording of the failed assassination to find the „player‟. She used two expressions of command to show her superiority. Jane‟s
utterances were included as direct and assertive because her utterance was absolute and forceful toward her team.
Dialogue 16
Jane :
Why don’t you both go make some coffee?
Jasmine : Jane, it‟s your husband. He‟s back from Atlanta and he wants to know
about dinner. Jane
: Tell him...
Dinner‟s at seven. There were two expressions of assertive that were found in this dialogue.
This conversation happened in Jane‟s office between Jane and her team members. Jane was searching some data by watching the video of the failed assassination.
She realized about something and gave some advice for two of her team members who sit the front of the monitor to make some coffees. Her utterance was included
as assertive because the way she talked was directly and authoritatively. Actually, she wanted to find out about something secretly in the monitor and expelled the
girls forcefully. Jane was looking at the video and realized that it was her husband when her husband suddenly called. John on the other hand, already knew the fact
that Jane was the assassin that shot him in the desert. He asked Jane about the dinner and she used an imperative statement to order Jasmine to tell her husband
that the dinner starts at seven.
