Abstract :
Martana, Ricky Tandio. 18620019. Language and Gender in English Talk Show.
Thesis, Department of English Education Faculty of Language and Science Wijaya
Kusuma University Surabaya, 2023.
Language and gender is one of the sociolinguistic topics which still be
concerned by many sociolinguists. Gender differences which many researchers
concerned about are in linguistic variation and dominance of using language that
affect their social life such as in working, discussion, etc. Gender difference can be
seen in English talk show host where women and men hosts have different pattern
and style during utilizing language. In order to keep their relationship as well as
their reputation as a talk show host, English women and men hosts employ and
consider their language when communicating with their guest stars. Thus, this
research focused on analysing and finding the difference between women and men
hosts.
The main purposes of this research are to find the lexical and grammatical
feature difference used by women and men host. To find and analyse the difference
between women and men hosts, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research.
The researcher used 6 men English and 6 women English hosts to find the difference
between them. Additionally, the researcher used video from YouTube and
transcript those 12 English hosts to gather the data. Then, the researcher utilized
Lakoff theory for women hosts and Coates theory for men hosts to classify the data.
However, the researcher did not use rising intonation, emphatic stress from Lakoff
and interruption from Coates theory because the researcher only focused on lexical
and grammar features.
The study's findings indicated seven women's languages employed by
English women hosts, including lexical hedges or filler, intensifier, avoidance of
strong word, and empty adjective, as well as grammatical features such as tag
question, hypercorrect grammar, and super polite form. On the other hand, there
were five men language feature used by English men hosts included minimal
responses, compliment, and swearing-taboo, as well as grammatical features
including directives-command and question. Furthermore, the differences between
English women and men host in term of lexical were women hosts used avoidance
strong word and empty adjective, whereas men hosts used swearing-taboo and
compliment. In grammatical feature, English women hosts used tag question and
super polite form whereas English men hosts used question and directives?command.
Keywords: Language, Gender, Lexical feature, Grammatical Feature, Host, Talk
show