Abstract:
The study deals with women’s language features used by Megawati Soekarno Putri
at BPIP National Seminar: Kick-Off Pancasila dalam Tindakan. The aims of the
research are to categorize the types of women’s language features used by
Megawati Soekarno Putri and analyze the realization of women’s language features
in Megawati Soekarno Putri’s speech. This research was conducted by using
descriptive qualitative research. The source of data was taken from script videos of
Megawati Soekarno Putri’s speech at BPIP National Seminar on YouTube through
BKKBN OFFICIAL Channel. The data is collected through downloading,
watching, transcribing underlining and classifying the data. The data is analyzed by
using interactive model proposed by Miles et.al., (2014). The findings showed that
not all types of women’s language features were used by Megawati Soekarno Putri
in speech at BPIP National Seminar. There were 234 utterances from nine types of
women’s language features that occur in Megawati Soekarno Putri’s speech, they
were 84 lexical hedges or fillers, 83 rising intonation on declarative, 13 intensifiers,
2 emphatic stress, 17 tag questions, 4 empty adjectives, 1 avoidance of strong swear
words, 7 hypercorrect grammar, and 23 superpolite forms. The words found in
Megawati Soekarno Putri's speech that related to the women's language features are
mmm, uhh, ah, hmm, kayak/seperti (like), saya pikir/menurut saya (I think), and
kayaknya/mungkin (maybe) for Lexical Hedges or fillers. ya?(right) And kan?(isn’t
it) for tag question. Keren (cool), indahnya(wonderful), and cantik(beautiful) for
empty adjectives. Banget, sekali (so) and banyak (very) for intensifiers. Memang,
mengapa, bagaimana for hypercorrect grammar. Tolong(please), maaf(sorry),
dengan hormat, beliau and madam for superpolite forms. Ya Allah for avoidance of
strong swear words. Luar biasa! and sangat-sangat for emphatic stress
