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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

This section presents the findings of the research and the discussions of the findings. This section is separated into two parts. The first part explains the women’s language features that are used by Ellen DeGeneres in her talk show called The Ellen ’ s Show and Oprah Winfrey in her talk show called Oprah Prime . Then the second part explains the differences of language use by Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey in their talk shows.

A. Types of Women’s Language Features That Were Used by Ellen

DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey This section aims to answer the first research question, which is to find out the types of women’s language features used by Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey in interviewing Michelle Obama. As explained in Chapter II, the theories that were used to analyze the wom en’s language features were used by Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey are from Lakoff 1973 and Parab 2015. Based on the findings, there are five features were used by Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey, which are intensifiers-adjectives and adverbs, expletives, euphemisms and polite expressions, hedges and hypercorrect grammar.

1. Intensifiers-adjectives and adverbs

Some adverbs like awfully, pretty, terribly, vastly, nice, quiet and so, are more easily found in women’s language Parab, 2015. Parab, 2015, cited in Key, 1975, p.75 female makes more use of intensifiers. Women are said to show PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI higher rates of intensifier usage than men Lakoff, 1973. There are some kinds of intensifiers-adjectives and adverbs that can be found in Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey interviewing with Michelle Obama. Below are some examples which contain the intensifiers used by Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey in their interview with Michelle Obama. [1] Pretty soon you’re going to start doing things like regular civilian … The first example is the part of the conversation between Ellen DeGeneres and Michelle Obama in The Ellen ’s Show. Michelle Obama is going to end her status as the first lady of United States not long after her interview with Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen DeGeneres used the word “pretty” to explain that Michelle Obama’s status is no longer become the first lady of United States anymore and Ellen DeGeneres wanted to emphasize that Michelle’s last year of becoming the first lady is slowly coming. The other examples of intensifiers-adjectives and adverbs features can be seen as below: [2] I’m so glad you’re here. [3] This is so good. [4] This is so much fun. The examples above explain Ellen DeGeneres ’s feeling toward Michelle and her excitement because Michelle wa s in her show. The expression “so” showed up again in again when Ellen DeGeneres was speaking with Michelle PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI