Abstract
This study reports on the non-standard Indonesian expressions used by men and women in The Reader's Letters in magazines. Seven editions of two different magazines, For Him Magazine and Cosmopolitan, were used as the source of data. The findings revealed the kinds of nonstandard expressions used by both gender, in terms of linguistic categories and non-standard features, also confirming that the men employed more nonstandard expressions than the women
Highlights
In communication, people can use different varieties of the same language
The language used by the males and females, in terms of their use of non-standard expressions, was examined to find out the kinds of non-standard Indonesian expressions used by the writers in the Reader’s Letters in the two kinds of magazines for different genders: For Him Magazine (FHM) and Cosmopolitan
Kinds of Non-Standard Indonesian Expressions Used in FHM and Cosmopolitan
Summary
Some linguists have done researches on the influence of gender on the language used. Lakoff, for example, has given some characteristics of women’s language that differentiate them from men’s. That is why women usually tend to use a more standard variation or “form” of language than men Men usually tend to use more non-standard linguistic forms than women. It is influenced by the condition of men as a main part of working-class life. Since ‘toughness’ is often considered as one of the characteristics of “masculinity”, men tend to use the “working-class language”, which is characterized by the non-standard form Those kinds of language can be called vernacular language. The data were nonstandard Indonesian expressions consisting of words, phrases, clauses and sentences
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