An Analysis Women’s Language Feature Used by Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers Movie

Khoirummuthmainnah Khoirummuthmainnah, Muhammad Ridho Kholid, Agus Hidayat

Abstract


All Gender is one of the factors that can influence the way a people used a language. Gender is a characteristic of men and women that influences their social environments. people have various styles of language when communicating with people with different social classes in society. Therefore, the researcher chose to analyze the women’s language used by Erin, an English teacher who tried to change his students' point of view in the movie entitled The Freedom Writers. The research method used in this study is a qualitative research design it investigates the utterances of women’s language feature used by Erin as the main character in Freedom writers movie by using human as the instrument. In content analysis, the researcher watch and read to understand the movie, listing the utterances by Erin as the main character in Freedom Writers movie. Then the researcher analyzed by identifying the data which were categorized as type of women’s language feature. Analyzing the data based on Lakoff’s theory: lexical hedges or fillers, tag questions, rising intonation on declaratives, ‘empty’ adjectives, precise color terms, intensifiers, ‘hypercorrect’ grammar, ‘superpolite’ forms, avoidance of strong swear words, and emphatic stress. From the data analysis, the result of this study showed that: (1) there are eight type of women’s language feature used by Erin as the main character in freedom writers movie consisted lexical hedges or fillers, tag questions, rising intonation on declaratives, ‘empty’ adjectives, intensifiers, ‘hypercorrect’ grammar, ‘superpolite’ forms and avoidance of strong swear words. (2) the dominant type used by Erin in freedom writer movie is “hypercorrect” Grammar.

Full Text:

PDF

References


Arliss, L. P. (1991). Gender communication. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Bogdan, Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to the Theory and Method, (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc 1998), p. 145

Cameron, D. (2003). Gender and language ideologies. In J. Holmes, & M.

Cameron, Deborah. “Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Current Issues and New Directions.” Applied Linguistics 26, no. 4 (2005): 482–502. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/ami027.

Eckert, Penelope, and Sally McConnell-Ginet. “Language and Gender.” Language and Gender, 2003, 1–366. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791147.

I Dewa putu Wijana, 2021, "Pengantar Sosiolinguistik", Yogyakarta, universitas gajahmada press

Karsten Legère, Janet Holmes, and Karsten Legere, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Language, vol. 70, 1994, https://doi.org/10.2307/416511.

Lakoff, Robin. "language and woman's place. In Language in society, Vol 2, No 1 (pp. 45-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4166707."

Legère, Karsten, Janet Holmes, and Karsten Legere. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Language. Vol. 70, 1994. https://doi.org/10.2307/416511.

Lisda Miftahul Aini. “Women Language Used by Main Characters of ‘Mockingjay’ Movie” 4, no. 1 (2016): 64–75.

Murti, M L D. “An Analysis of Women’s Language Features Used by Mia in The Princess Diaries Movie.” … Language Education Study Program Department of …, 2018. https://repository.usd.ac.id/29430/2/141214072_full.pdf.

Matthew B miles, A michael Huberman, Jhonny Saldana, Qualitative Data Analysis (third edition) (Phoenix: Arizona State University, 2014), 28.

Meyerhoff, The handbook of language and gender (pp. 447-467). Maiden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Miller, D. L., Creswell, J. W., & Olander, L. S. (1998). Writing and retelling multiple ethnographic tales of a soup kitchen for the homeless. Qualitative Inquiry, 469.

Mooi E., and Sarstedt M., A Concise Guide to Market Research, (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011), p.29

Oktapiani, Tika, M Natsir, and Ririn Setyowati. “WOMEN’ S LANGUAGE FEATURES FOUND IN FEMALE CHARACTER’S UTTERANCES IN THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA” 1 (n.d.): 207–20.

Patricia Leavy, Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Art-Based and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, (Great Britain: The Guilford, 2017), p. 153.

Satyendra, “Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Inquiry: A Critical Examination,” Establishing-Reliability-and-Validity-in-Qualitative-Inquiry-A-Critical-Examination, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2014): 5746

Sugiyono, (2011) Memahami Penelitian Kualitatif. Alfabeta.

Tannen, D. (1990). You just don’t understand women and men in conversation. Ballantine Books.

Wardaugh, R. (2006). An introduction to sociolinguistics fifth edition. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Wardhaugh, R. (1992). An introduction to sociolinguistics second edition.

Yunjie, Huang, and Zhang Yi. 2019. “Intonation and Gender Difference: A Gender- Based Analysis of Intonational Features in the Talk Show.” International Journal of Arts and Commerce 8 (International journal of arts and commerce ISSN 1929-7106): 67–83. https://ijac.org.uk/articles/8.7.7.67-83.pdf.

The followings are the references writing guidelines of Online Learning in Educational Research. The references should be written in justify alignment and alphabetically. We suggest you use Mendeley management reference with APA 7th style for your references. The guideline for example below:

Journal Article:

Diani, R., Yuberti, & Syarlisjiswan, M. R. (2018). Web-enhanced course based on problem-based learning (PBL): Development of interactive learning media for basic physics II. Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Fisika Al-BiRuNi, 7(1), 105–116.https://doi.org/10.24042/jipfalbiruni.v7i1.2849

Book:

Sugiyono. (2011). Metodologi penelitian pendidikan. Alfabeta.

Articles Compilation book (edited book):

Prasad, A. S. Clinical and biochemical spectrum of zinc deficiency in human subjects, In: A. S. Prasad, Ed., Clinical, biochemical and nutritional aspects of trace elements, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, 1982, pp. 5-15.

Seminar Proceeding:

Saregar, a. (2016). Efektifitas pembelajaran fisika dengan model learning cycle dan model contextual teaching learning (CTL) terhadap hasil belajar siswa kelas XI di SMA Negeri 1 Karya Pinggawa Krui Pesisir Barat. Mathematic, Science, and Education National Conference (MSENCo) (pp. 49-54). Bandar Lampung: FTK IAIN Raden Intan Lampung.

Published Undergraduate Thesis / Dissertation / Thesis

Wahyuni, S. Y. 2009. Pengembangan uji kompetensi mandiri berbasis komputer untuk meningkatkan efikasi diri siswa (Doctoral dissertatation). Diperoleh dari nama data base

Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis / Dissertation / Thesis

Kuntoro, T. H. 2007. Pengembangan kurikulumpelatihan magang di SMK: Suatu studi berdasarkan dunia usaha (Unpublished Doctoral dissertation). Program Pasca Sarjana UNNES, Semarang.

Internet Sources:

Honeycutt, L. (2011, Maret). Communication and design course. Retrieved from http://dcr.rpi.edu/commdesign/class1.html.

Regulation

Depdikbud. 2013. Permendikbud nomor 66 tahun 2013 tentang standar penilaian. Jakarta: Departemen Pen¬didikan dan Kebudayaan.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/jlss.v2i1.20792

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.