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included as the tentativeness because by saying those phrases, she demanded John to respond.
4. Responsiveness
Responsiveness is the expression to affirm another person ‟s opinion and to
show interest on what the speaker said. There were two expressions of responsiveness found in Angelina‟s utterances.
Dialogue 11
John : Gotta get these filters changed.
Jane : What did you think of Dr. Wexler? His questions were a bit wishy-
washy.
The conversation happened in Smith‟s house after they came back from
Dr. Wexler meeting. In this conversation, she asked John ‟s opinion about their
marriage consultant. Her question indicated that she wanted her husband to give his opinion about their marriage consultant, but he did not answer or responded
Jane‟s utterance. Jane asked John because she respected him as her husband. She valued him and wanted to know his opinion about their marriage consultant.
Dialogue 12
Jane : What do you think?
John : Huh
The conversation happened in the living room after John came back from his office.
Jane wanted to know John‟s opinion about the new curtain that she had just bought. Her utterance was considered as responsiveness because she expected
that John would give Jane his opinion or praise her about the new curtain but he
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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
