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Gender, Language and Literature

Women’s Language Features in Making

Request in Pride and Prejudice Movie

Syafda Dini Pratiwi, Ike Revita

Universitas Andalas

Women are the creatures that are required to speak more politely than men. The

phenomenon is in line with the gender perspective where men and women are

different socially. They, the, are also treated unsimilarly. The use of women’s

language features will support the politeness of the women's statement.

Therefore, it can represent their social status in society. Besides, there must be

certain functions of women’s language features, especially when making the

request. A request is an act of asking something and asking someone to do

something. This article is aimed at describing the functions of women’s language

features when making requests depicted in the movie Pride and Prejudice. Pride

and Prejudice movie was written by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice which was

released in 2005 is a British romantic drama about five sisters from an English

family who deals with marriage, morality, and misconception issues. This movie

films about a prejudiced girl and a proud man. The girl came from the middle

class. Meanwhile, the man came from a high class. At first, they hated each other.

However, as time goes by, they know each other. In the end, they have lived their

happily married life together. The data were taken from a high rating movie titled

Pride and Prejudice 2005. All requests from women’s utterances became the

data. The observational method with the non-participant technique was used to

collect the data. Using the concept about women’s language features, the

speech act of request, and context, the analysis was conducted. The result of the

analysis was presented narratively. After analyzing the data, it is found that there

are two functions used by the women characters in Pride and Prejudice movie in

making requests indicating their language features. They are 1) hedging devices

and 2) boosting devices. The use of boosting devices more than hedging is due to

the way to strengthen the intention. It is also in line with the way society treats

women, that women must behave very well because they are women.

Keywords: functions of women's language features, request, women's

language features utterances

Short Biography:

Syafda Dini is a student of English Department, Faculty of Humanities. She is

interested in running research related to women and language.

Ike Revita is a lecturer from the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Andalas since

1999. She has a great interest in running research and writes articles related to

women. Some articles were published in the international journal, such as “I

differently mean what I say: Conversational Implicature of Minangkabau Women

in Indonesia” (Asian EFL Journal/Q2, 2021) and Politeness Strategies of

Minangkabau Ethnic in Indonesia (Asian ESP Journal/Q2, 2020).

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