FEATURES OF WOMEN’S AND MEN’S LANGUAGE FOUND IN THE MAIN FEMALE CHARACTER IN THE BREADWINNER MOVIE

The research entitled “Features of Women’s and Men’s Language Found in the Main Female Character in The Breadwinner movie”, aims to find out and describe the types of women’s and men’s language uttered by the main female character in the movie. The film shows that the main female character Parvana experiences the discriminated treatment in most aspects. One of those aspects is in language aspect. Through the language use in conversation, Parvana is placed in second place. Therefore, the researcher is interested in analyzing the types of women’s language uttered by the main female character Parvana in The Breadwinner movie. The researcher only focuses on the main character Parvana in using language in conversation by applying the difference theory proposed by Deborah Tannen. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. The researcher collects the data by watching movie repeatedly, identifying and classifying the language used by Parvana as the main female character which contains the types of women’s and men’s language. The result shows that Parvana uses six types of women’s language in her utterances. Those types are support, intimacy, understanding, feelings, proposals, and compromise. Women’s language type mostly used by Parvana is Proposal. However, the researcher also finds four types of men’s language in Parvana’s utterances. They are independence, advice, order, and conflict. Then, status and information do not occur in Parvana’s utterances in the movie