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Theories used
Krippendorff (2004:3) also states, “Content
Krippendorff (1980) mentions that content
analysis entailed a systematic reading of a
analysis is a research technique for making
body of texts, images, and symbolic matter,
replicable and valid inferences from data to their
not necessary from an author’s or user’s
context (in Prasad, 1994:71-89).
perspective”.
To collect the data, the researcher, first identified them by underlining the words,
phrases, clauses, and sentences produced by Martha which imply woman-specific
linguistic features. The same was also done to Sarah’s. Then, the researcher
assigned codes to the identified data. After the data had been identified and coded,
they were analyzed by classifying them. Then, they were interpreted based on their
contexts to reveal the messages conveyed by the utterances. And finally, they were
concluded to uncover what those features reflected.
Result and Discussion
Lakkof’s Women’s Linguistic Features Martha Sarah Total (U) Percent age
(100 U) (96 U)
Lexical hedges or filler 51 38 89 45.40%
Intensifiers 9 22 31 15.81%
Tag questions 4 14 18 9.19%
Emphatic stress 13 - 13 6.63%
Rising intonation on declaratives 4 8 12 6.12%
Avoidance strong swear words 11 1 12 6.12%
Super polite forms 3 7 10 5.10%
Empty Adjectives 2 6 8 4.10%
Precise color terms 3 - 3 1.53%
Hypercorrect grammar - - - 0%
Total 196 100%
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