Afrillya, Anisa and Idayani, Andi (2023) Woman’s Language Features Used in Ted Talks. ELT-Lectura, 10 (1). pp. 51-64. ISSN 2550-0724

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Abstract

The aim of this research was to find out how the woman's language features used in Ted Talks videos and the language functions used by the woman speakers in Ted Talks. This research is descriptive. This is a descriptive study. The researchers obtained the data by downloading and writing the transcripts of Ted Talk videos. To analyze the data, the researchers identified the types of women's language features used by woman speakers in TED talk videos. The study then determined the language function of all types of female language characteristics utilized by female speakers in TED Talks videos. The researchers discovered that women speakers in Ted Talks used seven types of female language features, such as lexical hedges or fillers, tag questions, rising intonation on declaratives, empty adjectives, intensifiers, hypercorrect grammar, and super polite forms, as the study's final conclusion. The researcher also discovered the language functions employed by female speakers in Ted Talk, such as directive, expressive, referential, metalinguistic, and phatic. However, the researcher found no language features or functions exclusive to women that were not employed by women speakers in Ted Talks, such as exact color descriptors, avoidance of harsh swear words, and emphatic stress. The poetic function is a language function that female Ted Talk speakers do not employ.

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