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exhibited her skill and ability by mentioning the total number of her targets that were bigger
than John‟s targets.
4. Less Emotionally Responsive
Men rarely show their emotion to hide their feelings. They will respond as little as possible to hide their feelings, because they think that showing their
emotion means that they are weak and pathetic.
Dialogue 41
Seller : Hey, step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Try your luck. How about
you, little lady? Wanna try your luck? Win a prize? Jane
: Yeah. All right.
This conversation happened when Jane and John first met. They were walking in a festival when someone offered them to try to hit some targets on one
of the shows. Jane just answered the seller invitation by answering it with minimal cue.
Dialogue 42
John : Tried something new?
Jane : Uh-huh. How was Atlanta?
The conversation happened in Smith‟s house when Jane and John having their dinner together. John asked her about the cooking and she just gave a
minimal response to his question she did not want to bring the conversation about her cooking further and changed the conversation to the new direction.
Dialogue 43
John : I‟m slightly color blind.
Jane : Uh-huh
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This conversation happened after Jane and John settled their problem and had their breakfast together. Both of them were telling each other their story and
realized that there were many strange things happened and they did not realize it. John told her about her experiences and being slightly color blind. She responded
with minimal cues to show John that she is listening.
5. Conversational Dominance
Men may reroute the conversation if they do not like the topic or they may interrupt. There were two expressions that were considered as Conversational
dominance.
Dialogue 44
John : Honey, would you just...
Jane : Five more minutes.
The conversation happened in the Smith‟s bedroom. Jane was still reading when John was already lying on the bed ready to sleep. John, who could not sleep
asked Jane politely to stop reading and turn the light off, but she interrupted before his husband finished his line. This interruption was considered as
conversational dominance because Jane‟s aim when she interrupted her husband was to control the conversation by making her husband silent.
Dialogue 45
John : Connected...
– Jane
: This is not my first time.
This conversation happened while they were in the spying van and they were going to kidnap Benjamin Danz which was their last target. John was
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worried about Jane, therefore he asked Jane about her preparation that made Jane angry. While he was talking Jane interrupted her husband and said that this was
not her first time. Jane‟s interruption here was categorized as conversational dominance with one of the feature namely interrupts. She interrupted her husband
to control the conversation and made that her decision was absolute and leave no room for her husband to respond. She challenged her husband that she already
knew about it and implicitly told her husband to stop worrying about her. 6.
Abstract
Men frequently speak in general terms that remove from concrete experience and distance from personal feeling. From Angelina‟s utterances, there
is only one abstract feature found.
Dialogue 46
John : You think this‟ll have a happy ending?
Jane :
Happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet.
This conversation happened in a ballroom hotel while Jane and John were dancing. John was asking Jane about their marriage, but she
responded John‟s question coldly
. Jane‟s utterance “Happy endings are just stories that haven‟t finished yet” was considered as abstract because she was talking in general terms
with no concrete experience. Jane‟s utterance also created more barriers that notified John that she did not think that their marriage will be a happy ending.
The table below was the summaries of men‟s speech features found in
Angelina Jolie‟s utterances from the dialogues.
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Table 4. Features of M en’s Speech
No Men’s
Speech Angelina Jolie’s Utterances
Time To
tal 1.
Direct and assertive
We talked about this. You remember?
00:13:12,752 23
You‟ll get used to „em.
00:13:30,353
We‟ll get him out tomorrow.
00:29:38,280
Order more. All right. Go, Jas.
00:29:43,243
I want GPS and SAC of the canyon, and the weather report for the last three days
00:29:57,799
I want to know who that bitch is. Get me that tape.
00:35:53,196
Get me that tape. What?
00:35:56,074
Why don‟t you both go make some coffee?
00:38:43,283
Tell him... Dinner‟s at seven.
00:39:16,024
This room is wrapped. Thank you.
00:51:07,068
Target profile is our main priority. Utilize all means necessary. Phone taps. Credit
cards. Audio scan civilian frequencies
00:52:55,885
And search the database.
00:53:17,032
Find him.
00:53:24,164
First and last warning, John. Get out of town.
00:57:59,648
Well, so you say. But right now, you‟re trapped in a steel box hanging 70 floors
over nothing but air.
00:58:05,987
Six. And I‟m not leaving.
00:54:12,921
Don‟t Come on. Come on
01:15:28,238
Why do I get the girl gun?
01:21:13,416
No.
01:21:18,964
Paid actor.
01:27:39,177
Yeah, all right Stay. Stay there, wait for my mark. I‟ll find It. Wait for my mark.
Almost there. I don‟t know what happened. Just hold on.
01:34:05,730
Shut up
01:35:03,246
Shut up
01:35:08,335
2. Instrumentalit
y It‟s in the middle of the table.
00:15:43,737 14
Yeah, it‟s between you and me.
00:15:47,365
Well, so are a lot of girls.
00:53:54,069
Yes, thank you. Did you also get the base charge on the principle cable? Promise to
leave town, or I‟ll blow it.
00:58:43,650
I thought... I thought that you were the most beautiful mark Id ever seen.
01:07:25,839
All business.
01:07:36,600
That vacation in Aspen? You left early. Why?
01:19:07,249
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No Men’s
Speech Angelina Jolie’s Utterances
Time To
tal I like it. You proposed to me here, so it
has agreeable symmetry.
01:01:47,626
I‟m breathless to hear it.
01:04:18,360
Provocative.
01:04:21,363
I know.
00:16:49,886
I‟ll be there. In and out. Just a quickie.
00:16:51,429
I never do anything without thinking it through.
00:08:21,127
He‟s in construction. He is a big-time contractor. He‟s gone as much as I am, so
it‟s perfect.
00:08:29,719
3. Status and
control Beginner‟s luck.
00:07:22,861 10
There was a struggle over the material. This tea sandwich of a man, he got his
hands on them first. But I won.
00:13:00,532
They‟re a bit green, so we have to reupholster the sofas and definitely get a
new rug.
00:13:02,617
All right. Turn left. Left, John. Left.
01:33:31,238
Hold still.
01:25:02,020
Move over. Move. Im the suburban housewife, sweetheart. You move.
01:25:27,504
Go.
01:25:34,511
30 second window. I cut the power, you grab the kid. Simple and clean. Got it?
01:32:18,582
312.
01:32:49,070
Some were two at a time.
01:32:57,289
4. Less
emotionally responsive
Yeah. All right
00:06:46,616 3
Uh-huh. How was Atlanta?
00:43:59,224
Uh-huh
01:19:42,659
5. Conversation
al dominance Five more minutes
00:14:57,732 2
This is not my first time.
01:33:23,855
6. Abstract
Happy endings are just stories that havent finished yet.
01:03:12,043 1
Total utterances of men’s speech
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From the table, it can be seen that Angelina uttered fifty three utterances that were considered as
men‟s speech out of sixty seven chosen utterances. From the table, it also can be seen that she used all of the six features of men
‟s speech in the movie. The table also showed that Angelina mostly used direct and assertive
feature in the movie that meant that Angelina was kind of people that used to be