| dc.description.abstract | People have their own way to communicate. It can be influenced by gender.
Male and female’s cultures and personality generally differ in how they communicate
each other. The interactional style that they use in communication is different. Every
group has its own subject matter based on their gender. Gender is a way for society to
divide people into two categories, male and female. People perhaps choose
deliberately to speak in certain ways to sign their social identity such as their gender
and their membership in a particular community. Furthermore, this thesis analyzes
the differences betweeen male and female in showing politeness and choosing topics
in 2009 English Department Students, Faculty of Letters, Jember University.
Most respondents are from Javanese and Madurese ethnics. Usually, both of
Javanese and Madurese etnics use language level in order to show their politeness. In
Javanese this level is called “ngoko” and “kromo” and in Madurese this level is called
“tak abesah” and “abesah”. These levels of language are used to show their
politeness. Another differences between male and female in showing politeness are
the use of politeness strategies. Most female respondents often do positive politeness
strategies, such as using avoid dissagreement, giving symphaty and understanding to
the hearer. These strategies are used to make the hearer feel comfortable with them.
On the other side, most male respondents do not like to do those positive politeness
strategies. They say that giving symphaty and understanding is not very important to
show by words.
Furthermore, politeness can be in the form of behaviours as well as verbal and
nonverbal language. Male and female also show some gestures in their speech. They
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often use these gestures when they meet lectures in campus or someone else of a
higher social status. Male and female also differ in how they communicate each other.
Male and female communicate to people from their own gender in different topics.
Female like talking about feelings, relationship, their works, lecture and their family.
They talk with their friends, sister, mom and neighbour often about their relationship
and themselves. People gossip to make themselves feel better. By talking about
personal and private matters of other people they can flow up their feelings. On the
contrary, usually male talk about their study, jobs, debate about politic and lesson,
share about sport and sometimes they talk about female. The theories from Hudson
(1996), Gelles (1999), Giddens (2005) and Coates (1986), and some theories from
other experts is considered as theoretical review related to the topic being discussed.
Library and field research are applied in this thesis. The data used in this thesis are
qualitative data. | en_US |
