GENDER AND COMMUNICATION: SOME FEATURES OF WOMEN’S SPEECH

Yusrita Yanti

doi:10.37301/culingua.v2i1.69

Authors

Yusrita Yanti Universitas Bung Hatta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37301/culingua.v2i1.69

Keywords:

gender, communication, varieties, language and culture

Abstract

This paper deals with gender and communication in terms of different features of women’s speech based on the previous studies done by many sociolinguists. Gender refers to categories that distinguish people based on their socio-cultural behavior, including speech. In their speech, gender-men and women- use different ways to say a similar thing in communication. This paper described women’s and men’s speeches from several studies in a frame of linguistics perspectives. Some different features were compared with the women’s speeches in Minangkabau community that indicates Minangkabau politeness maxims. This paper also describes how Minangkabau culture is different from other cultures in criticizing among native speakers of Minangkabau both direct and indirect. Then, some hedges are used by women as politeness markers to minimize face-threatening acts (FTA), a concept proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987).

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