Women’s Language Features Found in Queen Charlotte: a Bridgerton Story Series

Dhani, Novita Rahma and Zaid, Adnan (2025) Women’s Language Features Found in Queen Charlotte: a Bridgerton Story Series. Other thesis, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This final paper analyzes the types of women's language in the series Queen Charlotte: a Bridgerton Story (2023) which airs on the Netflix online platform. Women's language is a characteristic of conversations carried out by women which includes language patterns, expressions, and intonation or language style used by women. This final paper aims to find out what women's language is used by female characters in this series, and what features are most often used. In this final paper, the theory used to assist the analysis is Robin Lakoff's theory which discusses women's language. This final paper uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data found and describe it in writing. Based on this analysis, the writer found two results. First, in this study, there are only nine out of ten features proposed by Lakoff in this series. Second, in this study, the women language features most used by female characters are lexical hedges or fillers with a percentage of 25.12% then super polite form of 23.7%, and intensifiers of 17.54%. Next followed by women’s adjectives at 11.85%, emphatic stress at 9.95%, tag questions at 7.58%, rising intonation on declarative at 1.9%, avoidance of strong swear words at 1.9%, precise color terms at 0.47%, and finally hypercorrect grammar with a frequency of 0% occurrence.

Item Type: Thesis (Skripsi, Tugas Akhir or Kerja Praktek) (Other)
Uncontrolled Keywords: descriptive qualitative method, Lakoff, Netflix series, women’s language, women’s language features
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Fakultas Humaniora > S1 Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Kaprodi S1 Bahasa Inggris UTY
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2025 06:41
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2025 08:21
URI: http://eprints.uty.ac.id/id/eprint/17646

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