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.
