Abstract
This study aims to reveal language variation of the use of intensifiers that occurs between male and female teens. This study will also examine the effects of gender through the use of adjectives intensification. Seeing that society have stereotype towards male and female, it is being one of problems that cause the differences in their language. To answer this problem, qualitative and quantitative approaches are undertaken. All participants are asked to share stories through free writing section. A later interview process is accomplished to clarify their further reasons of their intensifiers. The results show that there are significant differences of intensifiers used by males and females such as intensifiers amount, adjective types, degree, positive-negative evaluation, emotional value, intensifiers choices, and the use of double and taboo intensifiers. These differences are caused by several reasons with gender related. It has connection with power, politeness, expressions, emotion, society compulsion, and others.
Highlights
The relation between gender and language use has been extensively investigated ever since Lakoff (1975) reported the reflection of women’s secondary position through the ways they speak
Despite the different ways to view the relationship between language and gender roles, one thing remains accepted; that is, several linguistic features are typically associated with the speech of men and women (Weatherall, 2016)
This study dominantly used qualitative analysis to give detail explanation about how male and female teens are different in using intensifiers and elaborating the way how gender roles can affect the use of intensifiers
Summary
The relation between gender and language use has been extensively investigated ever since Lakoff (1975) reported the reflection of women’s secondary position through the ways they speak. Society has constructed a stereotype that males and females ought to behave differently related to the images of gender roles─masculinity and femininity. In keeping with these assumptions, the use of intensifiers is determined by gender (Mills & Francis, 2006). 33) disclosed that female speaks intensifiers like “so” and “such” more frequently than male such as in I really felt so bad about the boy and such a nice boy. This specific use of intensifiers is used to accentuate politeness norms in female’s side. Male can speak slangy and more extreme word such as fucking weird to show their toughness and signal a modern adolescent
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