Women language features of Emma Watson: interviewed by cross gender hosts

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Ramadhan, Maya Nurul Izzah (2023) Women language features of Emma Watson: interviewed by cross gender hosts. Undergraduate thesis, Uin Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aims to discuss women language features of Emma Watson when interviewed by hosts of different genders. This study focuses on the utterances that contain women's language features of Emma Watson during interviews with female and male hosts. In addition, the researcher also looked into how frequently women's language features were used in the interviews. This study has three issues: (1) What are the women language features apparent in Emma Watson’s utterances with a male host? (2) What are the women language features apparent in Emma Watson’s utterances with female hosts? (3) How is the intensity of women language features to different genders? Since the data were evaluated and reported using phrases and sentences, the researcher employed a descriptive-qualitative approach. In order to gather data, the researcher transcribed interviews with each of the different gender hosts from YouTube. Then employed coding to analyze Emma Watson's language features, which were then classified based on theories from Lakoff (1975) and Coates (2013). The study’s result revealed that hedge was the feature that appeared the most in both interviews. During male host’s interview, the researcher found eleven language features, including minimal responses, command and directives, question, hedges, rising intonation, empty adjectives, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, superpolite form, compliments, and emphatic stress. Whereas in female host’s interview there are ten language features, the details are minimal responses, swear and taboo words, compliments, hedges, empty adjectives, intensifier, emphatic stress, rising intonation on declarative, hypercorrect grammar, superpolite forms. The researcher also discovered that question feature appeared during the interview with the male host but did not appear when with the female hosts. Meanwhile, swear and taboo language appeared during interviews with female hosts but not when with male host. This leads to conclusion that women language features used by Emma Watson not too different when interviewed by hosts of different gender, this is based on the tendency of women's language which is influenced by socio-cultural aspects.