FEATURES, FUNCTIONS, AND FEATURE CHANGES OF WOMEN’S LANGUAGE IN THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON NOVEL

Renita Amara Sasti, NIM.: 16150038 (2020) FEATURES, FUNCTIONS, AND FEATURE CHANGES OF WOMEN’S LANGUAGE IN THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON NOVEL. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA.

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Abstract

Zamia Badawi is a female main character in Throne of The Crescent Moon novel written by Saladin Ahmed. This novel tells about a story of ghul hunter. The researcher used this novel as an object of study because the female main character, Zamia Badawi, has a man‘s title as a Protector of The Band. This research focuses on analizing the women‘s language features, functions of women‘s language, and feature changes of women‘s language uttered by Zamia Badawi. It is used the theory of women‘s language features by Lakoff and functions of women‘s language by Holmes. This research uses descriptive qualitative method because this research is done in order to analize the women‘s language features, functions, and feature changes by describing words. After analized the data, it can be concluded that Zamia Badawi used eight women‘s language features in her utterance. They are lexical hedges or fillers, tag questions, rising intonation, empty adjectives, intensifiers, hypercorrect grammar, superpolite forms, and emphatic stress. There are six functions of women‘s language in Zamia‘s utterance. They are to express uncertainty, to get response, to soften the utterance, to start discussion, to express feeling, and to emphasize the utterance. Furthermore, there are three feature changes that have been found in Zamia‘s utterance. They are slang word, vulgar word, and strong swear word.

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