Open AccessWOMEN LANGUAGE FEATURES IN RECODE WORLD’S TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES
Author(s) -
Deby Rahmawati,
Elvi Citra Resmana,
Lia Maulia Indrayani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
elt-lectura/elt-lectura : studies and perspectives in english language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2550-0724
pISSN - 2338-8560
DOI - 10.31849/elt-lectura.v6i2.3122
Subject(s) - sociolinguistics , linguistics , utterance , adjective , feature (linguistics) , computer science , psychology , philosophy , noun
This research analyzes the women language features in giving public speeches in RECODE World’s Technology Conferences. The writer used Lakoff’s on Holmes (2013) theory to analyze the data. The writer applies descriptive qualitative method by Creswell (2014). Data for this reseach is women utterance during conference. Basen on theory by Lakoff, the author discover six women language features.The result of this research shown that there are six women language feature that appear, there are lexical hedges, intensifier, superpolite form, avoidance strong swear, empty adjective, and emphatic stress.
Keyword: sociolinguistics, gender language, women language features.