This document discusses research on differences between women's and men's language. It explores whether women use more hedging and boosting language that signals lack of confidence or attempts to persuade. The document also examines how tag questions are used more by women to express uncertainty or soften statements and questions. Additional topics covered include differences in politeness levels, interruptions during conversations, conversational feedback, and characteristics of gossip between women and men.

2. Is woman’s language a distinct
style or register of a language?

3. Are woman more polite than woman?

4. Are there any differences in the
way woman and man interact?

5. How is language used to refer to
woman and man?

6. What message does the language used
about woman convey about their
status in the community?

7. Social dialect research focused on
differences between women’s
and men’s speech in the areas of
pronounciation.

8. - Uncertainty
- Lack of Convidence

9. - Close the door
- That’s an adorable dog
- Oh dear, the TV set’s broken
- I’ll be damned there’s a friend of mine!
- I was very tired
- I was so mad
- My goodness, there’s Pak Yanto Sudiman

10. • Lexical hedges or filler
- you know, sort of, well, you see
• Tag question
- she’s very nice, isn’t she?
• Rising intonation on declaratives
- it’s really good?
• Intensifiers such as just and so
- I love him so much
• Superpolite’ form
- indirect request
The speed at which an object falls

11. There are two language features used by
woman :
• Hedging devices
- signal lack of cinfidence
• Boosting devices
- signal persuade their addresee to take
them seriously
Features of “Woman Language”

12. USING TAG QUESTIONS
• EXPRESS
- Uncertainty
- Doubt
• FUCKTION
- Facilitative or positive politeness devices
- Soften directive or criticism
Lakoff’s Linguistic Features as Politeness
Devices

13. Function of Tag Question Women Men
Expressing uncertainty 35 % 61 %
Facilitative 59 % 26 %
Softening 6 % 13 %
TOTAL 100 % 100 %
Tag Question Function by Function and
Sex of Speakers

14. • Women use more politeness devices then
the men
- Men to men : fewer politeness
- Men to women : more politeness
• Social Role or Status
Different Pattern of Language
- Statusful women
- Title man
Politeness

15. • Interrupting Behavior
Based on research, women got
interrupted more than men
• Conversational Feedback
According to American studies,
women do the more positive
feedback to the convensational
partner better than men do.
INTERACTION

16. Women Gossiping:
- Usually consist of experiences, problems,
feeling
- Avoid criticizing people in order not to make
atmosphere becomes disconfort.
Men Gossiping:
- Tend to argue about certain topics, criticized
each other and sometimes make the
conversational partner feels down.
Gossip

17. Thank you..