LESTARI, RESKI AYU (2019) WOMEN’S LANGUAGE AS REFLECTED IN THE COMMUNICATION STYLES OF PRESENTERS IN THE RESEARCH SEMINAR. S1 thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MAKASSAR.
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Abstract
The study aims to investigate the usage of women‟s language and its reflection in the communication styles in research seminar. This research applied a case study approach to a group of female presenters consisting of five postgraduate students of English Education Department in Graduate Program of the State University of Makassar in 2018. A purposive sampling technique was used to obtain the data for this research. It utilized observation as the instrument of this research. The results of this research revealed that; (1) seven features out of ten features of Women‟s Language appeared in research seminar spoken by the presenters. They were lexical hedges, intensifier, empty adjective, emphatic stress, superpolite form, rising intonation on declarative and tag question where the most frequent feature is lexical hedges; (2) woman‟s language used by the female presenters had the five functions except one function. The five function are to express uncertainty, to emphasize an utterance, to express feelings, to start a discussion, and to get soften the utterances. Meanwhile, the function to get response did not appear in the five research seminars; (3) four out of nine communication styles were uttered in the research seminars. They were the dominant, attentive, animated and relaxed communication styles. Women‟s language was reflected mostly in dominant communication style while the lowest reflection was in relaxed communication styles. This reflection was due to three reasons; they are relation between the communicator or setting, personal styles and language competences. Keywords: women’s language, communication styles, research seminar
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Subjects: | PASCASARJANA > BAHASA INGGRIS (S2) |
| Divisions: | PROGRAM PASCASARJANA |
| Depositing User: | UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM |
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2019 01:50 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2019 01:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/13281 |
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