Men's Language Features and Social Variables in The Talk Show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman Season 1
HERNI INDAH SAFITRI, Dr. Aris Munandar, M. Hum.
2022 | Skripsi | S1 SASTRA INGGRISPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis fitur-fitur bahasa laki-laki dan mengamati faktor-faktor sosial yaitu Setting and Scene, Participants, dan Ends pada gelar wicara My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman Musim 1. Data pada penelitian ini berupa tuturan-tuturan pembicara laki-laki yang didapat dari ketujuh episode gelar wicara tersebut. Data yang sudah dikumpulkan kemudian diklasifikasikan berdasarkan teori milik Jennifer Coates tentang fitur-fitur bahasa laki-laki (2013). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa beberapa tuturan yang diungkapkan oleh penutur laki-laki dalam gelar wicara tersebut mirip dengan yang diusulkan Coates. Ada 335 tuturan yang diklasifikasikan ke dalam tujuh jenis fitur bahasa laki-laki. Fitur bahasa laki-laki yang paling banyak digunakan dalam gelar wicara tersebut adalah minimal responses dengan 93 kemunculan (27,76%), yang kemudian diikuti secara berturut-turut oleh information seeking questions (59 kemunculan atau 17,61%), command and directives (58 kemunculan atau 17,31%), interruptions (41 kemunculan atau 12,24%), the topic of current affairs, sports, and travel (31 kemunculan atau 9,25%), swearing and taboo language (30 kemunculan atau 8,96%), serta compliments (23 kemunculan atau 6,87%). Analisis variabel sosial menunjukkan bahwa ketiga komponen yang diamati yaitu Setting and Scene, Participants, dan Ends mempengaruhi cara pembicara dalam bertutur kata. Pertama, Setting and Scene mempengaruhi derajat formalitas tuturan. Kedua, Participants membantu para pembicara memutuskan sejauh mana topik diskusi dapat berjalan. Ketiga, Ends memandu pembicara untuk mencapai tujuan mereka.
This research aims at investigating men's language features and observing the social variables, namely Setting and Scene, Participants, and Ends factors in the talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman Season 1. The data were the male speakers' utterances obtained from the seven episodes of the talk show. The data were classified using the categorization of men's language features proposed by Jennifer Coates (2013). The results showed that some of the men's languages used in the talk show were similar to what Coates proposed. There were 335 utterances classified into seven types of men's language features. The most frequently used feature is minimal responses (93 occurrences, or 27.76%), and is subsequently followed by information-seeking questions (59 occurrences, or 17.61%), command and directives (58 occurrences, or 17.31%), interruptions (41 occurrences, or 12.24%), the topic of current affairs, sports, and travel (31 occurrences, or 9.25%), swearing and taboo language (30 occurrences, or 8.96%), and compliments (23 occurrences, or 6.87%). The analysis of the social variables showed that the three components observed, namely Setting and Scene, Participants, and Ends influenced the way the speaker carried the conversation. First, the Setting and Scene affect the degree of formality of the speech. Second, Participants help the speakers decide how far the topics of the discussions go. Third, Ends guide the speakers to accomplish their goals.
Kata Kunci : men's language features, social variables, minimal responses, compliments, talk show
