The Linguistic Features in the Conversation of Grade Ten Students of SMA Negeri 2 Pematangsiantar
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This research aimed to describe the linguistic features by male and female in students conversation of
grade eleven students of SMA Negeri 2 Pematangsiantar. To find out the answer of the problem in this
research, the researcher uses the related theories, they are Lakoff (1975), Holmes (2010) and Meyerhoff
(2006). The design of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The participants were the grade
eleven of SMA Negeri 2 Pematangsiantar. The researcher used two classes, where one class (26 students)
and the other one (36 students) was as the control group. The instrument for collecting the data was
handphone. The research‘s results showed that both male and female characters use language features
proposed by Lakoff (1975), such as, empty adjectives, hedge, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, super
polite form, tag question, and emphatic stress, even though the characteristics of color words and
question intonation have not been found in the characters‘ utterances. The difference between men and
women‘s speeches is shown clearly through the characteristic of hypercorrect grammar in which male
students used informal speeches in higher frequency than female students and male students intend to
lexical hedges and filler in their conversation than female students and also super polite form male
students seldom to use it or never used it in their conversation and female students used avoidance of
strong swear words than male students never used it.. Overall, it can be said female students had more
formal language variation, while for male students had more informal language variation.
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