THE  FEATURES OF WOMEN’S LANGUAGE IN “ENOLA HOLMES 2” FILM: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY

Dewi Ranida Wulandari; Puspita Sari

doi:10.33197/ejlutama.v8i1.243

Authors

Dewi Ranida Wulandari Universitas Widyatama
Puspita Sari Widyatama University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33197/ejlutama.v8i1.243

Keywords:

Women's Language, Language features, Women's Language function, Lakoff, Pearson

Abstract

This research aims to identify the features of women's language used in Enola Holmes 2 Film based on Robin Lakoff’s theory (1973) and to analyse the functions of women's language that appears in Enola Holmes 2 Film based on Judy C. Pearson (1985). The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative research method, which discusses and observes the data source. The data analysed were collected by transcribing the film Enola Holmes 2. In total, there are 70 data collected from the data source. The collected data were then classified based on 10 features of women's language proposed by Lakoff in 1973. The results of this study show that 8 (eight) features of women’s language appear in Enola Holmes 2. The dominant feature that appears in the data source is lexical hedges or filler with 30 data in total (43%). Others are classified as rising intonation on declaratives for 13 data (19%), 7 data of tag questions (10%), 7 data of emphatic stress (10%), 6 data of intensifiers (9%), 3 data of avoidance to strong swear words (4%), 2 data of super polite form (3%), and 2 data of empty adjectives (3%). Then, the functions of women’s language found in the data source are to express feeling as much as 34 data (49%), 12 data to start discussion (17%), 10 data to express uncertainty (14%), and 8 data to get respond (11%). The function of women’s language that is less used in the data source is to soften utterance, 6 data or 9%.

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