Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
Vol 5, No 1 (2017)

THE SPEECH STYLES USED BY ERIN GRUWELL IN FREEDOM WRITERS MOVIE

Elma Ariella Setiawan (English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Esther H Kuntjara (English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
18 Jul 2017

Abstract

This study focused on the gendered speech styles namely; male speech styles and female speech styles used by Erin Gruwell in the Freedom Writers movie and the changes that can be perceived from her use of gendered speech styles. Based on the writer’s descriptive qualitative approach analysis on the data, she found out that the teacher uses both male speech styles and female speech styles along 15 class scenes. She used Co-operative feature of female speech styles and Aggressive feature of male speech styles as her dominant feature which were used in each class scene. However, the writer could not find any gradual changes from the teacher’s use of speech styles. Therefore, the teacher’s changes in using speech styles did not seem to correlate with the students’ changes in the attitude towards the teacher.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sastra-inggris

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Kata Kita is a journal dedicated to the publication of students research in the areas of literature, language, and teaching. In the study of language, it covers issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, sylistics, corpus ...