A Study of Women\'s Language Features Used by Fathia Izzati

This study entitled “A Study of Women’s Language Features Used by Fathia Izzati. The aim of this study is to describe types of women’s language features and the functions that affect the female youtuber of using women’s language features in her videos. The source of data was videos produced by Fathia Izzati. The study was using theory proposed by Lakoff (1975) and Holmes (1992). This study uses Qualitative Research as research design to explain and discuss the findings by using word. The writer focuses to analyze women’s language features on Fathia Izzati’s utterance in the form of word or sentences. The researcher herself is used as research instrument in this study. The writer also uses content analysis methood as method of data collection and interactive model of data analysis to analyze the data.
Then, the result shows that there are seven type of women’s language features found in the related to the research question, they are : hedges or filler for 5 data, 2 data on tag question, 2 data on rising intonation or declaratives, 5 data on intensifiers, 2 data on super polite form, 1 data on avoidance strong swear words, and 4 data on emphatic stress. In addition, the researcher also finds the function of women’s language features. Those are as hedging device because women feels uncertainty about her statement, as boosting device to strengthen their statement. There are 12 data belongs to hedging device and 9 data belongs to boosting device.