Analysis of Lexical Hedges: Sociopragmatic of Representative Speech Act of Main Woman Character in Sweet 20 Movie

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10.2991/assehr.k.200325.096How to use a DOI?

Keywords

lexical hedges, representative, speech act

Abstract

Language is a medium of communication for every human being. It may differ between different gender in terms of the words or how it is delivered. This study attempts to investigate lexical hedges in the representative speech act of the main woman character, especially in Sweet 20 movie. The selection of this movie is due to the fact that it is written by a woman writer. Therefore, the focus of this study is on the lexical hedges which are well-known as woman language. Lakoff’s theory regarding woman language is used. This study employs a qualitative research method. The result shows that there are four out of seven lexical hedges types found in the movie which were used by the main woman character, namely modal auxiliary verb, if clause, approximator of degree, quantity, and time, as well as introductory phrases. This study concludes that there are 32.88% of lexical hedges used by the main woman character in the movie.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Neidya Fahma Sunendar
AU  - Dadang Sudana
AU  - Wawan Gunawan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/31
TI  - Analysis of Lexical Hedges: Sociopragmatic of Representative Speech Act of Main Woman Character in Sweet 20 Movie
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 278
EP  - 281
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.096
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.096
ID  - Sunendar2020
ER  -