TRIANA RAKANITA 120 130 50 55

RINA DEWI 120 130 50 56

Less forcefully Swore much more

Ask more questions More blunt and to-the-point

Encourage other to speak Interrupt more

Use more instance like you and we Challenge, dispute, and ignore more

Do not protest as much as men when

they are interrupted

Try to control the topic discussed,

and inclined to make categorical

statement

WOMEN’S LANGUAGE

UNCERTAINTY

POLITENESS

TRIVIAL

LACK OF CONFIDENCE

Lexical Hedges or Filler

•you know, sort of, well, you see

Tag question

•she’s very nice, isn’t she?

Rising intonation on declaratives

• it’s really good?

Empty adjectives

•divine, charming, cute

Precise colour terms

•magenta, aquamarine

Intensifiers•just, so ; I like him so much

•Hypercorrect grammar

Superpoliteforms

•indirect requests, euphemisms

Avoidance of strong swear

words

•fudge, my goodness.

Emphatic stress

•it was a BRILLIANT performance

Interrupting Behavior

It has been found that men interrupt others

more than women do and women got

interrupted more than men.

Therefore, interruption is something men do

to women practically never do to men.

For example:

Woman: How’s your paper coming?

Man : Alright I guess. I haven’t done much in the pasttwo weeks.

Woman: Yeah. Know how that can

Man : Hey you got an extra cigarette?

Woman : Oh uh sure like my pa

Man : How about a match?

Woman: Here you go uh like my pa

Man : Thanks

Woman : Sure. I was gonna tell you my

Man : Hey I’d really like to talk but I gotta run. See you.

Woman : Yeah.

Conversational Feedback

According to American studies, women do

the more positive feedback to the

conversational partner better than men do.

For example:

Mary : I worked in that hotel for - ah eleven years and I

found the patrons were really really you know good.

Jill : Mm.

Mary : You had the odd one or two ruffian’d come in and

cause a fight but they were soon dealt with.

Jill : Right. Really just takes one eh? To start trouble.

Mary : Yeah, and it was mostly the younger ones.

Jill : Mm.

Mary : That would start you know.

Jill : Yeah.

Mary : The younger ones could not handle their booze.

Jill : Mm.