An Analysis of Men’s and Women’s Language in Mrs. Doubtfire Movie Series

by
Risa Arroyyani
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ABSTRACT

This research entitled “An Analysis of Men’s and Women’s Language in Mrs. Doubtfire Movie Series” is intended to find out the kinds of diction, grammatical form, and language style used by men and women in Mrs. Doubtfire movie series.

This research uses descriptive qualitative method because the researcher describes the data and the produced data are in the form of words than numbers. The researcher uses dialogue used by men and women in the script of Mrs. Doubtfire movie series as the data source of this research. The technique used in collecting the data is noting techniques. The researcher downloads the scripts of Mrs. Doubtfire movie series in the internet then prints the scripts of Mrs. Doubtfire movie series. In analyzing the data, the researcher applies descriptive technique. She identifies and classifies the dialogues used by men and women in the scripts of Mrs. Doubtfire movie series and then she selects the dialogues by underlining the words, phrases, clauses, or sentences based on the diction, grammatical elements used by men and women. After that, the researcher analyzes the listed dialogue based on the degree of formality used by men and women.

The result shows that the kinds of diction frequently used by men are colors, colloquial, and strong expletives while the kinds of diction frequently used by women are adverbs, and adjectives. The kinds of grammatical elements frequently used by men are conjunctions, hedge, prepositions, verbs, and tag questions while those kinds of grammatical elements are less used by women. The kinds of language style frequently used by men are casual style and intimate style while the kind of language style frequently used by women is consultative style.