Abstract:
Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language and society.
Sociolinguistics included how individual speaker use language, how people use
language differently in different towns or regions, and how a nation decides what
languages will be recognized in courts or education. Sociolinguists conduct
research on any of those topics in one topic about many of different way. This
research aims to describe types of masculine and feminine speech style by all
characters in the twilight movie and describe the application of masculine and
feminine speech style found in Twilight movie in Teaching Speaking.
This research employed descriptive qualitative research. Qualitative research
was used to emphasize on describing the phenomenon in its content by
interpreting the data. Qualitative data were taken in the form of words (spoken
and written) and visual images (observed or creatively produced). The Primary
data were the utterances containing masculine and feminine speech style in
Twilight movie. The data were supported by the context in which the utterances
are spoken. Objects of this research were types of masculine and feminine speech
style by all character. The steps of the data analysis were follows: 1). Observing
the expression used in Twilight movie comprehensively, 2) Taking a note to any
words, phrases, clauses, and sentences that contain masculine and feminine
speech style, 3). Identifying masculine and feminine speech style, 4) Making
percentage of the finding of masculine and feminine speech style in Twilight
movie script, 5) Analyzing the data, and 6) Making conclusion based on the data
analyzed.
The result showed that there are seven types of masculine and feminine
speech style all character in twilight movie: 151 utterance masculine speech style
are Interruption 8 utterances (40%) Competitive Banter 7 utterances (35%) One
Up 5 utterance (25%) and feminine speech style are Back Channeling 92 utterance
(70.22%) Tag Question 6 utterancse (4.60%) Up Talk 8 utterances (6.10%)
Hedges 25 utterances (19.08%). The application is result of masculine and
feminine speech style in Twilight move using tag question in teaching speaking.
The researcher hopes this thesis can make deep understanding in sociolinguistics
especially masculine and feminine speech style.
