Institusion
Universitas Darma Persada
Author
Muhammad Reza, Abdurrahman
Subject
791.4375 Film Reviews/Tinjauan Film
Datestamp
2021-10-14 07:05:47
Abstract :
The research entitled women?s language features found in Laureline character?s
utterances in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Movie, aims to describe
the women?s language features based on Robin Lakoff theory and also to reveal
the function of women language features found in Valerian and the City of a
Thousand Planets Movie based on Robin Lakoff and Judy Pearson theory. This
research was conducted by using qualitative method, while for collecting the data
were watching the movie several times, reading movie subtitle and underlining
female character?s utterances containing the women?s language features. From ten
features of women?s language, the researcher found nine features used by
Laureline in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Movie. They are lexical
hedges or fillers (25), tag question (2), rising intonation (18), empty adjectives (3),
precious color term (0), intensifiers (16), super polite form (4), hypercorrect
grammar (7), avoidance of strong swear words (4) and emphatic stress (9).Then,
there are language functions served by women?s language found in Laureline
character?s utterances in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Movie. That
function are to express uncertainty, to get response, to emphasize utterances, to
express feeling, and to soften an utterance.