Categorizing Hillary’s Utterances Analyzing the Data Drawing the Conclusion Writing up the Report

6. Categorizing Hillary’s Utterances

Sixthly, after selecting the utterances, the researcher classified the selected utterances based on Lakoff’s theory 1973 about the features of women’s language. The researcher categorized the utterances into cross tabulation table.

7. Analyzing the Data

Seventhly, the researcher discussed the findings to answer the two research problems in this research. The researcher also discussed the related theories to support this research.

8. Drawing the Conclusion

Eighthly, after discussing the findings, the researcher drew the conclusion of the research that had been done. The conclusion was drawn based on the result of the data analysis in this study. Thus, the researcher made an implication based on the findings. In this step, the researcher concluded all the findings related to the study.

9. Writing up the Report

After finishing all of the procedures before, then, the last step was to write the report of the research. 31

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In this chapter, the researcher presented the data findings gained from the study undertaken and discussed them to answer the research question formulated in the research problem. This chapter contains two subchapters which discuss the research problem. The first subchapter answers the first research problem the women’s language features in Hillary Clinton’s utterances in formal and informal situations, speeches and interviews. The second subchapter is about the Hillary’s absent features or the features that were not used by Hillary in her utterances.

A. Hillary’s Language Features

The problem in this study focuses on the features of women’s language found in Hillary’s utterances in her speeches and interviews. In this discussion, the researcher chose Lakoff’s theory about women’s language features as reference of analysis and put them into a cross tabulation table for each video. The utterances were put into the table and classified and given checklist in the suitable feature. In order to answer the research question, the researcher will present and discuss the features of women’s language used by Hillary Clinton. Women’s language features which are proposed by Lakoff 1974 are lexical hedges or fillers, tag questions, rising intonations, empty adjectives, precise color term, intensifiers, hypercorrect grammar, super polite form, avoidance of strong swear PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI