Women’s language features used by female characters in Paradise Hills movie

This study aims to analyze the women’s language features in the female characters in the Paradise Hills movie using Robin Lakoff’s theory. This study discovers the investigation of types, functions, and factors of women’s language used by female characters in the Paradise Hills Movie. This study presents three problems of study: (1) what are the women's language features found in the female characters in the Paradise Hills movie? (2) what are the functions of women’s language features in the female characters in the Paradise Hills movie? (3) What are the factors that caused the use of women's language features in the female characters in the Paradise Hills movie? This study applied a descriptive-qualitative method to analyze the data of the female characters in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The data were collected through the female characters’ utterances transcription of the movie script. Then, the researcher identified, categorized, and discussed the data found using Robin Lakoff’s theory. Moreover, the researcher chose several data to be analyzed and discussed the type, function, and factor of women's language features. As a result, the researcher found eight women language features uttered by the female characters. The researcher found 101 data uttered by female characters consisting of women's language features. Those features are lexical hedges or filler, tag question, rising intonation, empty adjective, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, superpolite form, and empathic stress. The most used feature is lexical hedges or filler and the least used are precise color terms and avoidance of strong swear words. Furthermore, the researcher found five language functions used by female characters in the Paradise Hills movie. Those are to express uncertainty, to get responses, to soften an utterance, to start a discussion, and to express feelings or opinions. Moreover, the researcher discovered the psychological and social factor shapes the characters' language features.