Women’s Language Features Portrayed in Lili Elbe in the Movie The Danish Girl.

Kanitsa,, Zahra Putri. (2023) Women’s Language Features Portrayed in Lili Elbe in the Movie The Danish Girl. Sarjana thesis, Universitas Brawijaya.

Abstract

Gender telah menjadi subjek yang menarik bagi banyak ahli dari berbagai bidang, termasuk linguistik. Para pakar sosiolinguistik sudah dan masih terus mempelajari hubungan antara bahasa dan gender, serta bagaimana perbedaan pria dan wanita dalam menggunakan bahasa. Salah satu penemuan paling penting di bidang ini adalah teori Fitur Bahasa Perempuan yang dikemukakan oleh Robin Lakoff (1975). Riset ini meneliti fitur-fitur Bahasa Perempuan yang digunakan oleh karakter male-to-female transgender dalam film The Danish Girl beserta fungsinya. Dalam melaksanakan studi ini, peneliti menggunakan analisis konten kualitatif sebagai metode dan film The Danish Girl beserta transkripnya sebagai sumber data. Proses analisis berhasil mengidentifikasi 188 kemunculan fitur bahasa perempuan dalam ujaran Lili Elbe dalam film tersebut. Namun, ia hanya menggunakan sembilan dari sepuluh fitur yang diperkenalkan oleh Lakoff: 21 lexical hedges and fillers (11,17%); 3 tag questions (1,60%); 6 rising intonations on declaratives (3,19%); 9 empty adjectives (4,79%); 14 intensifiers (7,45%); 70 hypercorrect grammars (37,23%); 8 superpolite forms (4,25%); 2 avoidances of strong swear words (1,06%); dan 55 emphatic stresses (29,26%). Berlawanan dengan teori Lakoff, Lili tidak menggunakan fitur-fitur tersebut hanya untuk menunjukkan rasa ketidakpastiannya, melainkan untuk berbagai fungsi. Lili juga ditemukan lebih sering menggunakan fitur-fitur tersebut ketika ia menampilkan dirinya sebagai wanita dibandingkan pria. Beberapa ciri bahasa laki-laki juga ditemukan dalam tuturan Lili, yang mungkin menunjukkan bahwa sebagian dari identitas lamanya masih ada. Hasil keseluruhan dari penelitian ini memperkuat anggapan bahwa identitas gender mempengaruhi penggunaan linguistik seseorang.

English Abstract

Gender has been an intriguing subject for numerous experts from various fields, including linguistics. Sociolinguists were and are still continually researching the relationship between language and gender and how men and women differ in linguistic usage. One of the most fundamental discoveries in this area was a theory called Women’s Language Features, proposed by Robin Lakoff (1975). This study examines the features of women’s language used by a male-to-female transgender character in The Danish Girl movie, along with their functions. In conducting this study, the researcher used qualitative content analysis as the method and the film and its transcription as the data source. The analysis succeeded in identifying 188 occurrences of women’s language features in Lili Elbe’s utterances in the movie. However, she only used nine out of ten features introduced by Lakoff: 21 lexical hedges and fillers (11,17%); 3 tag questions (1,60%); 6 rising intonations on declaratives (3,19%); 9 empty adjectives (4,79%); 14 intensifiers (7,45%); 70 hypercorrect grammars (37,23%); 8 superpolite forms (4,25%); 2 avoidances of strong swear words (1,06%); and 55 emphatic stresses (29,26%). Contradicting Lakoff’s theory, Lili did not employ the features exclusively to express her uncertainty but rather to perform various functions. Lili was also found utilizing the features more frequently when she presented herself as a woman rather than a man. A few men’s language features are also found in Lili’s speech, which might indicate that fragments of her old identity persisted. The overall outcome of this study reinforces the notion that gender identity affects a person’s linguistic use.

Item Type:	Thesis (Sarjana)
Identification Number:	0523120088
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sociolinguistics, Women’s Language Features, Gender, Transgender, The Danish Girl.
Divisions:	Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	agung
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2024 03:32
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2024 03:32
URI:	http://repository.ub.ac.id/id/eprint/214861

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