AN ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S LANGUAGE FEATURES OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN “DR. STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS” MOVIE

This study focuses on the analysis of women’s language features of the main
characters in “Dr.Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” movie. The study aims at
identifying the types of women’s language features and the functions in the movie.
A descriptive qualitative method was used to analyse the data. The data were
analysed following the types of women’s language features theory proposed by
Lakoff (2004). It was found that 77 utterances in nine out of ten of women’s
language features proposed by Lakoff (2004) appeared in the movie. Hypercorrect
grammar is the most occurred in the movie with percentage 30% or 23 utterances.
Tag questions, empty adjectives, avoidance of swear words and emphatic stress are
less appeared in the movie with percentage 4% or 3 utterances each. The second
most appeared feature is rising intonation with 27% or 21 utterances, followed by
lexical hedges with 14% or 11 utterances, intensifier feature with 8% or 6
utterances, and super polite form feature with 5% or 4 utterances. Regarding the
function of the features used in the movie, the women's language features serve
several functions, including expressing politeness, building relationships and
relationships, and conveying empathy and emotional investment in conversation.
Moreover, women's language features can serve important social and
communicative functions in conversation, and create a sense of relationship and
understanding between speakers