WOMEN™S LANGUAGE AS THE MAIN CHARACTER IN JANE AUSTEN™S NOVEL: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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https://doi.org/10.24114/jalu.v2i1.713Abstract
ABSTRACT This study deals with women™s language analysis on the main character in JaneAusten™s novel: Pride and Prejudice. The objectives of the study are to describe the types of women™s linguistics features on the main character in JaneAusten™s novel Pride and Prejudice, to derive women™s linguistics features on the main character in JaneAusten™s novel Pride and Prejudice, to reason women™s linguistics features on the main character in JaneAusten™s novel Pride and Prejudice. The research was conducted by descriptive qualitative. Thedata are the speech on the main character in JaneAusten™s novel, the data were collected from 1 novel, Pride and Prejudice that has women™s linguistics features. The data were analyzed by identifying and classifying the figures of speech displaying the result in a table. Then these linguistics features are described in details. The analysis found that there are 9 types of women™s linguistics features which used: lexical hedges is amount 10,06%, tag question is 0,62%, rising intonation on declarative is 2,51%, empty adjective is 3,14%, precise color terms is 0%, intensifier is 56,60%, hyper correct grammar is 1,88%, super polite form is 0,62%, avoidance of swear word is 14,46%, and emphatic stress is 10,06%. The most dominant feature that used is intensifier and the lowest is precise color terms because it is not used in the data. Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Women™s Language
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