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was done, the researcher interpreted the result and made it into a report by providing explanation about the connection.
F. Research Procedure
This research took several steps in order to finish the analysis. The researcher studied the movie and found some relevant theories. The researcher also used some
movie reviews to define the dialogues that would be analyzed. The procedures of
conducting this research were stated in the following section. 1.
Selecting the Research Questions
The first step, the researcher decided to choose women’s language for this study. The researcher also chose Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality movie
as the subject of the research. The research came up with two research problems in this study. The first one deals
with women’s language features used in Miss Congeniality movie. The second one deals with the changes of
women ’s language into masculinity based on the way women speak.
2. Reviewing Related Literature
Th e researcher reviewed some theories about women’s language in
order to answer the research question. The theories of women’s language
proposed by Lakoff 1975 which were supported by some others experts. Besides, the researcher searched for some theories which possibly cause the
changes of women’s language into masculinity based on the way women speak.
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3. Selecting Research Instrument
The instrument of the research was the researcher as human instrument. To collect the data, the researcher chose Gracie Hart as the main character in
Miss Congeniality movie. Then, the researcher made a table which consisted of women’s language features to analyze the data.
4. Collecting Data
The researcher searched for Miss Congeniality movie and then watched it. While watching the movie, the researcher tried to analyze the features used
by Hart. After watching the movie, the researcher searched for the transcript of the movie.
5. Analyzing Data
When the transcript was found, the researcher started to analyze the data by using the table and checklist
which contained women’s language features. In analyzing the data, the researcher categorized the statements which were
used by Hart into features of women’s language proposed by Lakoff 1975. After categorizing the data, the researcher identified each statement and
classified those statements into each feature of women’s language where they belonged.
6. Drawing Conclusion
The last step was drawing the conclusions based on the results of the data analysis in this study. For the first research question, the researcher
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provided a report about language used by Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality movie to women’s language features. For the second research question, the
re searcher explained the changes of women’s language into masculinity based
on the way she spoke. Thus, the researcher drew the conclusion based on the findings related to the study.
Based on the research procedure above; selecting the research questions, reviewing related literature, selecting research instrument, collecting data,
analyzing data, and drawing the conclusions were used to conduct this study. s
