<![CDATA[Keywords: gender, indirectness, speech acts, talk shows Language is communication tool for the daily life. By means of language, people can convey messages and their intentions directly or indirectly. When we speak indirectly, we mean what we say but also mean something else, this is what we called as indirectness in speech acts. This study intends to know whether different gender influences the way in asking for information which is one of the speech acts principal employed by speaker especially interviewer in talk show to get information. There are two problems to be solved, they are: (1) How is the act of indirect asking for information shown by man and woman interviewers? and (2) What is the intended meaning of different indirect questions of man andwoman interviewers?This study was descriptive qualitative by using language application in talk shows namely Sarah Sechan and Hitam Putih, and the data were derived from the transcript containing indirectness between the presenters and the guests. The selected topic was Lebaran edition with the average duration of 30 minutes.From the results of this study, there were some different usages of indirectness applied by male and female hosts. It showed that the female host in this study employed more indirect requests for information than the male interviewer did. These were not only influenced by sex, but also another context, such as the background knowledge of topic in conversation.The writer hopes the next researchers analyze indirect asking for information based on gender with different ages and status by using other theories and find the motives of indirectness so that the result can be more detailed and complete.]]>
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