A Comparative Study of Syntax Classifications between Men􀂶�s and Women􀂶�s Language in 􀂳�The Brave One􀂴� Movie Script

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to find out the kind of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in “The Brave One” movie are used by men and are used by women. And also to find out the kind of syntactical structure differences in “The Brave One” movie are used by men and women. This research uses the qualitative research because there is no numerical data in his research and then is no statistical procedure. The research object of this study is Men’s and Women’s Language on “The Brave One” Movie. The writer uses the script of the “The Brave One” Movie as the primary data source of the research. The writer uses document technique to collect the data. In this study the researcher uses the following techniques to analyze the data these are reading the movie script, classifying the men and women characters of the movie, classifying the linguistics features used by men and women, identifying the linguistics feature used by men and women, and finding out the differences of language used by men and women in “The Brave One” movie script and the last technique is drawing the conclusion. The result of this analysis showed that the kind of words used by men is impolite words that found in form of noun. The kind of phrase used by men is non standard noun phrase, prepositional phrase and non standard form of verb phrase. The kind of clauses used by men is non standard noun clause and adjective clause. The kinds of sentences are in the form of declarative and imperative sentence. The writer also found that women usually used standard and polite form of language. In this study noun and adjective are the kinds of words used by women. The kind of phrases used by women is the noun phrase. The kinds of clauses used by men are noun clause and adverbial clause. The kinds of sentences are in the form of declarative, interrogative, and exclamation sentence. Based on the result in this study, the syntactical differences between men and women can be seen on the politeness form, tag question, imperative, and exclamation.