Women language used by the main characters of “Mockingjay” movie

INDONESIA:

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti garis besar dari bahasa wanita yang digunakan oleh karakter –karakter utama dalam film Mockingjay. Ada 2 masalah yang akan di bahas dalam penelitian ini. Yang pertama adalah (1) apakah tipe dari karakteristik bahasa perempuan yang dipakai oleh karakter-karakter utama dalam film, (2) bagaimana karakter lelaki dan perempuan memakai bahasa wanita dalam film Mockingjay. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif karena data dianalisa dan dijelaskan dalam bentuk kata dan kalimat. Data diambil dari percakapan yang di ucapkan oleh karakter-karakter utama dari film Mockingjay dan naskah film untuk mendapatkan kalimat yang benar. Lalu, data di identifikasi dan diteliti berdasarkan karakteristik bahasa wanita yang di kemukakan oleh Robin Lakkof (1975). Di temuan menunjukan bahwa tidak semua tipe dari bahasa wanita di gunakan oleh karakter-karakter utama di film Mockingjay. Karakter wanita, Katniss Everdeen menggunakan 6 tipe dari karakteristik bahasa wanita, mereka adalah Rising intonation, lecical hedge, intensifier, super Polite form, tag question, emphatic stress dan precise discrimination of color. Sedangkan, karakter pria hanya menggunakan 5 tipe, yaitu rising intonation, super polite form, lexical hedge, intensifier dantag question. Ada 3 tipe yang tidak digunakan oleh mereka yaitu empty adjectives, hypercorrect grammar dan avoiding using strong expletives. Selain itu penggunaan bahasa wanita juga berhubungan dengan kondisi sosial dalam masyarakat.

ENGLISH:

This study investigated the major feature of women language used by the main characters of Mockingjay movie. There were two problems analyzed in this study. They were (1) what are the types of women speech features used by the main characters of Mockingjay movie and (2) how does women’s language used by the main character in “Mockingjay” movie. The design used in this study was qualitative descriptive because the data were analyzed and described in the form of words and sentences. The data were taken from the conversations uttered by the main characters of “Mockingjay” movie and movie script in order to get exact utterance. Then, the data were identified and analyzed based on the types of women’s speech features based on Lakoff’s theory (1975). Furthermore, the selected data were analyzed based on social factors theory proposed by Holmes (1992). The findings show that not all types of women’s speech features were used by the main characters of Mockingjay movie. The female character, Katniss Everdeen used six types of women speech features, they are rising intonation, lexical hedge, intensifier, super polite form, tag question, emphatic stress and precise discrimination. Meanwhile the male character only used five types; they were raising intonation, super polite form, lexical hedge, intensifier, and tag question. There were three features which were not used by them, they were; empty adjectives, hypercorrect grammar, and avoiding using strong expletive. In addition the used of women speech features is related with the social condition in their society.