WOMEN’S LANGUAGE IN BLACK SWAN MOVIE: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY

Abstract

Abstract

In communication, women and man have particular characteristics in the use of language. Women who have subordinate role want to achieve particular purposes as they have a certain role in society.  Therefore, the researcher aims at describing the women’s language features, explaining women’s language functions used by the main female characters in Black Swan movie and finding out the social backgrounds that influence the use of women’s language by the main female characters in Black Swan movie. The research uses descriptive qualitative and quantitative research focusing on the main female characters’ utterances. The main data of this study are utterances in form of dialogues by the main female characters taken from the Black Swan movie full transcript. The research reveals of three findings. First, there are only seven women’s language features out of total based on Lakoff’s theory found in the main female characters’ dialogue. It consists of lexical hedges and fillers, tag questions, rising intonation on declarative, empty adjective, intensifier, super polite form, and emphatic stress word. Meanwhile, five women’s language functions found, which are used to express uncertainty, to get response, to soften utterance, to express feeling and to emphasize an utterance. Social community and social roles influence the use of women’s language.

Keywords: women’s language, women’s language features and functions, the main female characters, Black Swan Movie.