The Analysis on Male and Female Talk in Oprah Winfrey Show (Sociolinguistic Approach)

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Asih Tri Yuliananingrum - X2211010 - Fak. KIP

In this research, the researcher uses Sociolinguistic approach. The purposes of this research are to find out: what are the differences between males and females speakers in Oprah Winfrey Show, what are the similarity characteristics of educated people’s speeches in public forums, especially in Oprah Winfrey Show, and what is the contribution of this study in teaching, especially English teaching. The researcher uses a descriptive method in this research. The analyzed data are taken from oprah.com and youtube.com. The researcher uses five videos; Donald Trump Family, Barrack and Michele Obama, Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, Ricky Martin, and All Hosts. The researcher only analyzes samples which have been selected from the population of those five videos. In this research, there are four elements which are analyzed, that is (1) specific utterances and short terms (gonna, wanna and gotta), (2) intonation including fall, rise, fall-rise, rise-fall and level, also pause, (3) turn taking system, and (4) register including sex and topics. Those four elements are to identify male and female talks. The results of the analysis are: females often use standard variants more than males, females often use intonation more than males but males often use pauses more than females, males are better in turn taking system than females, males talk showing Masculinity and females talk showing femininity. Male and female are as standard as in grammar, they use more one intonation in one utterance and males and females do not speak as males and females only. This research can be applied to the students as learning material, so the teachers can develop and improve the students’ speaking, and society may feel the effects of the using standard variations used by students. The researcher hopes the result of this analysis will have a great contribution to readers, especially to other researchers who have a common interest.