statement [19], Hillary praised the warm welcome for her and the great crowd in that conference. So, the researcher concluded that empty adjective were used in
order to strengthen what a woman was trying to say. In addition, Hillary did use empty adjectives to express her admiration or approbation for something within
her speeches in the selected videos.
7. Emphatic Stress
A long with tag question, Lakoff identified the use of a question intonation on sentence that are not question as a central she characterized as
women’s and powerless or weak. This question intonation has a high rising tone at the end of the sentence Eckert and Ginet, 2003:174. Women tend to use words
which are used to emphasize the utterance or strengthen the meaning of an utterance. Women tend to speak expressively. There were 6 words that classified
into emphatic stress. The evidences are mentioned in statement [20], [21] and [22]. It could be found in the first and tenth video.
[20] “It is a SPECIAL treat to be here with and on behalf of a GREAT leader of this city and our country, David Dinkins. He has made such an
INDELIBLE impact on New York, and I had the GREAT privilege of working with him as First Lady and then, of course, as a new senator.”
[21] “What happened in Benghazi was a TERRIBLE tragedy.”
[22] “With respect to air attacks, which have been mentioned, that has to be part of a LARGER PACKAGE. And I believe that that is the subject
of INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS with the Iraqi government.”
From those evidences, the researcher found the use of this feature in Hillary’s utterances was in order to clarify some statements that had to be paid
attention. Besides that, she also wanted to strengthen her expression when giving that speech. In the other hands, emphatic stress was also used by adding rising
intonation in order to conduct communicative situation during her speech.
8. Avoidance of Strong Swear Words
Swearing is kinds of interjection that can express extreme intensify. It has been widely considered as an expression of very strong emotion. It is viewed
as potent language and can indeed sometimes achieve impressive effect Lakoff, 1973 as cited by Fillmore, G. et. al, 1974. In the selected videos, there were just 6
sentences of using this feature. In this section, the researcher mentioned two of them. The first is statement [23] that found in the second video, statement [24]
that found in the ninth video, and another is statement [25] in the tenth video.
[23]“That is very funny. Oh my goodness.”
[24] “All of a sudden it wasnt just like, oh, my gosh, those people are killing each other over here again. It was, oh my gosh, they are
threatening us.”
Krisstarah Gonzalez: Hi. My name is Krisstarah Gonzalez. Im a student at G.W. from Massachusetts. My question is, if you could describe
yourself in three words, what would they be? [25] Hillary :“Oh, my gosh.”
In the statement [23], Hillary spoke it loud at the end of the video. At that time, the presenter of the talk show, Haass, said about something funny that she
might want to swear. Unfortunately, Haass’ words were inaudible. So, the researcher just heard the last sentence of Hillary in the last second. In the other
side, statement [24] shows that Hillary was infuriated hearing the cases of ISIS that were easily kill others without feeling guilt. In the statement [25], Hillary was
shocked because she was asked by Krisstarah to describe herself in three words. The similarity of those statements is that Hillary tried to avoid saying strong
swear words that might be able to express her feelings at that time. It was a must because she spoke as a good leader and she should show good behaviors,
including in speech.
B. Hillary’s Absent Features
