Abstract
The title of this paper is The Women’s Language Features in Moana Movie. This study aimed at identifying the women’s language features are applied by women and finding the context of the situation that influenced women’s language. The women’s language is analyzed based on the theory of sociolinguistics which is proposed by Lakoff (1975). The second theory applied to analyze the context of the situation is proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1989) who divides into three concepts: field of discourse, tenor of discourse, and mode of discourse. The data of this study was taken from a movie entitled Moana. The movie was chosen as the data source in this study because it contained many women conversations either formal or informal situation. The analysis comes to a conclusion. There were seven features of women’s language found in the movie entitled Moana, and the context of situation that influenced women language.
Highlights
Background of the StudyThe major thing that distinguishes human being from other creatures is basically the way people communicate with others by using language. Hornby (2005) said that woman is an adult female human with female sex
Observation of the function of woman language features is a crucial thing in woman life
The language especially the speech is different in form and address term, depending on the user
Summary
Women’s speech in general contains the words that convey the sense that the speaker is uncertain about what she is saying or cannot exactly state the accuracy of the statement: Data 1: Maui : Look what I did was ... wrong. Women’s speech in general contains the words that convey the sense that the speaker is uncertain about what she is saying or cannot exactly state the accuracy of the statement: Data 1: Maui : Look what I did was ... Moana : You know, it’d rude to refuse a gift from a goddess. The conversation occurred between Moana and Maui when Maui got back his hook from goddess. In her utterance, Moana used the hedge you know since she saw that Maui just felt awkward when he was regretting what he did before
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