The Study of Men and Women Language in “The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green Movie Manuscript

This study aims to (1) to examine the typical language by men and women in movie The Fault in Our Stars and (2) to describe the reasons of men and women expression the language in The Fault in Our Stars. The types of this research is descriptive qualitative. The object of the study is analyzing gender between men and women in The Fault in Our Stars movie. The data and data source are all utterances which is showed the difference between men and women in movie manuscript of The Fault in our Stars. The data will be analyzed using men’s language theory written by Coates (2004), women’s language theory written by Lakoff (1975), and language and gender written by Deborah Tannen in the book You Just Don’t Understand. The result of this study shows (1) the researcher found7 characterizing men and women, namely: tag question, question, minimal response, compliment, swearing or taboo language, hedges and directives. There were 52% characteristic of women language and 48% characteristic of men language. The percentage characteristics of women language there are 8% tag question, 8% question, 8% minimal response, 6% compliment, 6 % swearing, 10% hedges and 6% directive. While the percentage characteristics men language 6% tag question, 6% question, 6% minimal response, 6% compliment, 8% compliment, 8% swearing, 8% swearing, 8% hedges, and 18% directive. (2) the researcher found that the reasons men and women using expression of the typical languagehave similarity but also have differences. For example, women used a tag question is for confirmation (facilitative) about something while men used a tag question is to express uncertainty. Women use minimal response is to listen to another speaker. While men use the minimal response is to keep the conversation going