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Vol. 1 / No. 1 / Published : 2012-02

Order : 4, and page :21 - 27

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Hedges usage in mixed-gender conversation among english department students airlangga university

Author :

  1. Mega Anindyawati*1
  1. Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Budaya

Abstract :

Noting the importance of hedges usage in mixed-gender conversation, this paper discusses how hedges are used and the function of hedges produced by English department students Airlangga University. This paper based the analysis on Coates (2004)’s theory. Next, based on data from the conversational corpus taken on April 27th 2012, hedges produced by the participants are grouped into hedges “you know”, “like” and other forms of hedges. Each of these hedges serves different functions, which are to convey certainty or uncertainty, detach the speakers from the force of evaluative utterances and mitigate the force of utterances respectively. The result of the study is described in detail in relation to how the participants use hedges and the functions of hedges produced. The paper concludes that the participants produced hedges “you know” in the form of “rek”, “cak”, “koen”, “pak”, “pek”, hedges “like” is used as “kayak”, and other forms of hedges such as “mungkin”, “paling” and “kayak’e”. The usage of hedges carries on all functions except the one expressing uncertainty. Further, from their usage of hedges, male student and female student 3 are more concerned in domination while female student 2 and female student 4 are more interested in seeking connection.

Keyword :

English Department Students, Hedges, Mixed-Gender Conversation,


References :

Coates, J.,(2004) Women, men and language (3rd edition) London : Longman

Davies, A. and Elder, C.,(2005) The handbook of applied linguistics UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Eckert, P. and McConnell-Ginet, S. ,(2003) Language and gender New York : Cambridge University Press.

Holmes, J. and Meyerhoff, M. ,(2003) The handbook of language and gender Australia : Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Holmes, J. ,(1995) Women, men and politeness New York : Longman





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