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CHAPTER III CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter consists of two parts, namely conclusions and recommendations. The conclusions part summarizes the major findings and
discussions. The recommendations part spells out the recommendations for the rea
ders, lecturers and future researchers of women’s language features.
A. Conclusions
In this section, the researcher would sum up this research including the findings and discussions. This research aimed to answer the research question
which was ‘Do Indonesian female lifestyle bloggers posts reflect the features of women’s language?’ Then, ‘human as instrument’ and three Indonesian female
lifestyle bloggers’ post were employed as research instruments in order to collect the data. After that, the researcher used a checklist to analyze the data and
concluded the study about women’s language features used by three Indonesia
female lifestyle bloggers. Based on the discussion in Chapter II, the findings showed that only eight
features that were used by three Indonesian female lifestyle bloggers in their blog posts from January to May 2017. It could be seen in Table 2.1 that intensifiers,
lexical hedges and fillers, emphatic stresses and empty adjectives, precise color
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terms, superpolite forms in this findings were avoiding the strong swear words, hypercorrect grammar and question tag.
The percentage of intensifier occurrence was 69.56 which was commonly used to strengthen the bloggers statement in delivering their message
and to persuade others to take them seriously in order to not to be ignored. Followed by the percentage of lexical hedge or filler occurrence which was
12.23, this feature was used commonly to show their uncertainty and politeness in some ways. The next were emphatic stresses and empty adjective with the same
amount of percentage in occurrence 7.07. The empty adjectives were used by those bloggers aimed to strengthen their feeling towards what they were talking
about. They used it to make it seem more than a usual thing and to get more attention from the readers.
The next was emphatic stress. The emphatic stresses were used by the bloggers in their posts as boosting devices. Women boost the force of their
utterance because they want to be heard or paid attention to Lakoff, 2004, p.81. Thus, the three Indonesian female bloggers used these boosters to express their
confidence in expressing their feeling and opinion towards something. Next, the percentage of precise color term occurrence was 1.91, the bloggers used this
features to show that they had a wide knowledge of color terms which might make them kind of exclusive. The percentage of superpolite form in this findings
avoiding the strong swear words occurrence was 1.36. The bloggers showed their politeness in society by avoiding the used of strong swear words in their blog
posts. It showed that they still had this consideration of being polite in the society
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as they are also public figures who might influence more women by the way they deliver their speech. The percentage of hypercorrect grammar occurrence was
0.53. Based on the findings this feature was only used by the blogger A. She used this feature to show politeness and sincere gratitude as she used the correct
form of modal in her statement. The percentage of question tag occurrence was 0,27 and this was the least feature used in bloggers blog posts and only occurred
once. The use of question tag was to show blogger uncertainty in staying in the middle of dessert for the first time as she usually got to have luxurious hotel
facilities. One feature which did not appear at all was rising intonation on
declaratives. Since this research employed document analysis and rising intonation can only find in spoken language, thus the researcher did not find this
feature. In the researcher conclusion, rising intonation on declaratives could be seen when we listen to the speaker’s speech.
In conclusion , the researcher found that the women’s language features
used by three Indonesian female lifestyle bloggers were not only showing their lack of confidence and uncertainty. On the other hand, the use of some features
like emphatic stresses showed that women could also show their confidence using emphatic stresses feature. Besides, the three bloggers had the same patterns in
using the features. They tend used intensifier followed by lexical hedge or filler. The researcher concluded that this was because they wanted to be heard and got
the same perspective from the readers about what they said. Besides, the findings also showed that they have the same patt
erns in using the women’s language
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features. They had the same tendencies using intensifier the most in their content as could be seen in Appendix 2.
B. Recommendations