FEATURES AND FEATURE CHANGES OF WOMEN’S LANGUAGES FOUND IN AMIRA AND SAM MOVIE

Commonly, men and women use different languages in making a conversation. Lakoff claims that women tend to speak more polite and standard than men. However, the researcher finds that there are feature changes of women’s languages which have been said by Lakoff in a movie entitled Amira and Sam. In this movie, a main female character named Amira often utters languages which are usually used by men. It is the reason which makes the researcher interested to research further what features and factors of women’s languages are uttered by Amira in this movie. The researcher uses the theory of women’s languages by Robin Lakoff to find out the features and uses the theory of speech events by Dell Hymes to describe the factors. This research focuses on the analyses of features and factors of women’s languages uttered by Amira. It uses a descriptive qualitative method because this research is done in order to analyze features and factors of women’s languages by describing words. After the data are analyzed, it can be concluded that Amira uses nine features in her utterances. They are lexical hedge or filler, tag question, rising intonation on declarative, empty adjective, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, superpolite form, avoidance of strong swear word, and emphatic stress. Meanwhile, factors of Amira’s languages are situation, participant, end, act sequence, key, instrumentality, norm, and genre. Moreover, the researcher also finds some feature changes in Amira’s utterances. They are non-standard grammar, direct speech, slang word, vulgar word, and strong swear word