An Analysis of Women’s Language Features Used by Indonesian Female Author in the Book of Dear Tomorrow by Maudy Ayunda

Abstract

The study deals with women’s language features used by Indonesian female author in the book of Dear Tomorrow by Maudy Ayunda(DTMA). The aim of the study were to describe the use of women’s language features and language function in DTMA based on types of women’s language features by Robinn Lakoff. The source of data was collected from two chapters of DTMA. Documentation method was used in collecting the data. This study used descriptive qualitative method for analyzing the data and to describe the findings. The findings showed that not all types of women’s language features were used by those two chapters of DTMA. There were 66 utterances from six types of women’s language features that occured in DTMA, they were 19 lexical hedges or fillers, 1 empty adjective, 17 intensifier, 10 hypercorrect grammar, 1 superpolite, and 18 emphatic stress. Based the amount of the dominant type used of women’s language features in DTMA was lexical hedges or fillers. Kind of language function that used in DTMA was express function, metalinguistic function, and directive function.