Language Features Used By Indonesian Female Travel Bloggers

Abstract

This research deals with the language features used by Indonesian female travel bloggers at blogspot.com. It was aimed at investigating types of language features used by Indonesian female travel bloggers and the most dominant types of language features used by Indonesian female travel bloggers. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The source of data was taken from the script of blog post three Indonesian female travel bloggers. The result showed that there were 4 types of women’s language features used by Indonesian female travel bloggers, namely: lexical hedges or fillers, rising intonation on declarative, intensifiers, and emphatic stress. Total of language features from the script of three Indonesian female travel bloggers are 172. It consists of 23 (13.3%) for lexical hedges or fillers, 7 (4.07%) for rising intonation on declarative, 114 (66.27%) for intensifiers, and 28 (16.27%) for emphatic stress. It can be concluded that intensifiers was dominantly used by Indonesian female travel bloggers which aimed to strengthen the intended meaning.