The Analysis of Women's Speech in A Movie

This study discussed the areas of women"s speech and also the social context that influence the area women"s speech. The main character and some supporting characters in the movie entitled “Ever After (A Cinderella Story) spoke the utterances that were analyzed in this study. The topic of discussion was focused on three points. All of the areas of women"s speech and the social context that influence their speech had been analyzed and presented by using some linguists" theories in the previous chapter. Based on the preceding analysis and discussion, there were some points to be looked as the findings of the research. There were some areas of women"s speech found in the movie. They were: lexical hedge or fillers, intensifier „so" and „just", „empty" adjective, tag question, „hypercorrect grammar", „super polite" form, avoidance of strong swear words, emphatic stress, women display greater tendency to ask question, women has greater tendency to make utterance that demand a response, women show a greater tendency to make positive minimal response such as “Mmm, hmm”, women are more likely to adopt a strategy of silent protest after they have been interrupted, women use utterance that explicitly acknowledge and respond of the other utterance to the preceding one by talking something related to it, verbosity, question, and also command and directives