GENDER DIFFERENCES ON COMMENTATORS
’ COMMENT
IN SPECTACULAR SHOW OF INDONESIAN IDOL 2014
A Thesis
Submitted to English Applied Linguistics Study Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Magister Humaniora
By :
HIJRI RIZKI
Registration Number: 8126112014
ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTICS STUDY PROGRAM
POST GRADUATE PROGRAM
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
MEDAN
i ABSTRACT
Rizki, Hijri. Gender Differences on Commentators’ Comment in Spectacular Show of Indonesian Idol 2014. English Applied Linguistics Study Program. Postgraduate School. State University of Medan. 2015
ii ABSTRAK
Rizki, Hijri. Perbedaan Gender pada Komentar Komentator di Pertunjukan Spektakuler Indonesian Idol 2014. Program Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Medan. 2015
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Alhamdulillah, all the praise, honor and power belong to Allah SWT, for giving the writer blessing, mercy and endless love, especially in the process of accomplishing this thesis. In writing this thesis, the writer was helped by many beloved people and therefore the writer would like to express her greatest gratitude to:
1. Prof. Dr. Lince Siombing, M. Pd, her first advisor and Dr. Zainuddin, M. Hum, her second thesis advisor for their guidance, advices, suggestions, affection and patience in supervising and guiding the writer to finish this thesis.
2. Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M. Pd, the Head of English Applied Linguistics Study Program and Dr. Sri Minda Murni, M.S , the secretary of English Applied Linguistics Study Program for the assistance in providing the easiness while the writer studied in the faculty, especially in the process of completing this thesis.
3. Her thesis examiners, Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M. Pd, Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M. Pd and Mara Untung Ritonga, M. Hum., Ph. D for advices and suggestions.
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5. Her beloved husband, Azhar Abdul Rasdjid, S.T, her beloved parents: her mother Hj. Dahliana, her father H. Nawabir Ali and her beloved brother, Najmi Anshary for their prayers, attention, support, affection and unconditional love. It means a lot for the writer.
6. All of her beloved extended family and friends, Rina, Ria, Wina, Mariana, Sarni, Kiki, Rudi, Khairun Nisa, and all of her friends at LTBI B2 for the prayers, support, love, laughs and friendship.
7. Bang Farid, who has helped her in providing the academic administration. 8. Those whose names cannot be mentioned one by one for their help and
support. Thanks for everything. May Allah bless us. Amin
Medan, Februari 2015
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2.2 Gender Differences in Communication ... 13
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CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
4.1 Data Analysis ... 33
4.1.1 The Way of Communication Used by Commentators in Indonesian Idol 2014 ... 33
4.1.2.1 The Characteristics that Male Commentators Showed in Indonesian Idol 2014 ... 47
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LIST OF TABLES
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Table 2.1 The Features of Report and Rapport Talk in Communication ... 15 Table 2.2 The Reason of Using Report and Rapport Talk in Communication ... 26 Table 4.1 The Use of Report and Rapport Talk by Male Commentators in Indonesian
Idol 2014 ... 34 Table 4.2 The Use of Report and Rapport Talk by Female Commentators in
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LIST OF APPENDICES
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Appendix 1 Commentators’ Comment in Spectacular Show of Indonesian
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1The Background of the Study
Language is used for delivering the message from the speaker to the listener in communication. In doing communication, people have their own way to deliver their intention to the listener. To say one intention, people can say it in different way of communication. Holmes (1992:4) stated that language provides a variety of ways of saying the same thing. It implies that in expressing the same thing, someone can say it in different ways.
There are some factors that can influence the way people communicate with others. It has been generally assumed that one of the factors that can influence someone’s ways of communication is gender. Males and Females are not only
different in their physical appearance, but also in the way they use their language. It is commonly known that males usually are more direct and demanding in their way of communicating while females tend to be more modest and polite. Trudgill (2000:65) claimed that men and women of today speak the same language but use different varieties within it. This statement implies that men and women, eventhough they use the same language, they deliver it in different ways of communication with different varieties of speech.
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between male and female. Therefore, being familiar with language and gender concepts and understanding language and gender issues can help people acquire clearer and deeper understanding of gender differences in society.
In the study of language and gender, there are numerous studies that have described and raised many issues on the differences between males and females in their way of speaking. Tannen (1990:85) stated that male and female have different ways in communication, males tend to use language to gain the status, while females use the language to negotiate closeness and intimacy. Females use rapport talk to build and maintain relationships, while men use report talk to communicate factual information. It can be inferred that male and female have different objectives in using the language and they differently treated the language in their communication. Males use the language to gain the status while females use the language to negotiate closeness and intimacy.
The aim of investigating language and gender is to find the varieties of speech associated with a particular gender, or social norms for such gendered language use. Tannen (1990:17) claimed that it is necessary to identify them in order to avoid needlessly blaming. Learning the others’ way of talking is a leap across the communication gap between men and women, and a giant step towards genuine understanding. This statement implies that learning gender differences is useful to understanding the other gender’s way of communication in order to prevent miscommunication.
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refers to a situation where the happening happens. It can be in many forms including in program of television. In terms of television program, there are many programs offered by the television station to its watchers. One of these television programs is Indonesian Idol. It is broadcasted in RCTI.
Indonesian Idol is one of the most popular television live show which has a concept to find talented singer. This show is broadcasted on RCTI; one of private television studio in Indonesia. Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show is presented once a week for thirteen weeks which is in every week there is one contestant that will be eliminated, so the contestants will be decrease in every week till the winner found.
In this show, there are four commentators; two males commentators; Ahmad Dani and Anang Hermansyah, and two female commentators; Tantri Kotak and Titi DJ. The commentators are also singer and they have experience in singing. Their job in this show is giving comment for the contestants’ performance. The commentators give their comment directly after the contestants show their performance. In commenting section, the commentators can give praise, compliment, critics and advice for the contestants’ improvement. In giving comment, every commentator has
their own way in delivering their opinion for the contestants.
In some sessions, the comment given by the commentators end up into the same intention, but the way they deliver their idea into the comment is different. The researcher took the examples of male and female commentator’s comment on
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TANTRI: Ya, Rian, lagu yang kamu bawain cukup meyentuh, pas, rasanya dapet…penyampaian pesan yang ingin kamu sampaikan juga cukup tersampaikan, cuman ini kan sudah masuk spekta ya,…berarti persaingan justru makin ketat, gitu.. mm…bagus bagus aja itu kurang, jadi menurut aku,
mmm…apa..ya..kamu harus punya sesuatu yang memang mengejutkan untuk
penonton, jadi kamu harus punya elemen shock itu, biar nanti kalau misalnya pun minggu depan kamu masih ada di spekta ini, kamu harus punya sesuatu yang bisa dikejutkan kembali, gitu sih saranku…
TANTRI: Ya Rian, the song that you sang was good enough, I can feel the
feeling, song’s message was also delivered well, but this is spectacular show
yet. It means that, the competition has been tight. Good enough is not enough. So, in my opinion, you have to have something which can make the audience surprise. So you should have a shocking element, so if you were here for next
week. You have to have something surprise. That’s my suggestion..
By the utterances above, female commentators represented by Tantri, wants to say that the contestant performance is out of her expectation. She gives her comment in indirect way. Tantri said “kamu harus punya sesuatu yang memang mengejutkan untuk penonton, jadi kamu harus punya elemen shock itu, biar nanti kalau misalnya
pun minggu depan kamu masih ada di spekta ini, kamu harus punya sesuatu yang
bisa dikejutkan kembali ”. Tantri replaces the expression of “it is not really good”
with “kamu harus punya sesuatu yang memang mengejutkan untuk penonton”. From
this comment, it can be shown that Tantri replaces the “negative comment” to be the
“positive comment”. The same is also happened in other female commentator, Titi DJ. It can be seen in the example of Titi DJ’s comment below.
TITI DJ: Sarah, suara kamu memang sangat kuat sekali ya, karakternya khas sekali..mm..tapi maaf, kayanya bukan penampilan kamu yang terbaik, sedikit pitchy di sana, pitchy di sini, karena memang sulit ya..tingkat kesulitannya itu tinggi sekali..mm..maaf ya..
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In Titi DJ’s comment, she also expressed her dissatisfaction of Sarah’s
performance through indirect way. She said that “tapi maaf, kayanya bukan
penampilan kamu yang terbaik”. She gives the comment with positive impression. But, male commentators deliver their idea about contestant’s performance with
different way. It can be seen in Anang Hermansyah and Ahmad Dhani’s comment
below:
ANANG: Mm..Rian, kamu gak berhasil bawain lagu ini! iya..bener..kamu lebih berhasil bawain lagu minggu lalu..minggu lalu kamu bawain lagu Indonesia..itu aku bilang berhasil..yang ini aku bilang..kamu gak berhasil..beneran..kamu harus belajar lagi yang benar..aku berharap..kalau kamu selamat hari ini..kamu harus benar benar memperbaiki..kamu harus belajar benar lagu indonesia..ya..gak berhasil kamu!
sing an Indonesian song well. Ya…you are fail
While, in Anang Hermansyah’s comment, he said that “Ryan, kamu gak
berhasil bawain lagu in!”. It means that, Anang wants to say that Ryan is fail in singing the song, he cannot sing the song well. In this comment, Anang express their comment directly. It is also can be seen in Ahmad Dhani’s comment below.
DANI: secara pribadi, saya gak menyukai cara kamu menyanyi, style kamu
bernyanyi, secara pribadi ya…saya gak paham, tapi kalau dibilang kamu bisa
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DHANI: Personally, I don’t like the way you sing, your singing style, I don’t understand…If people say that you can sing.. off course you can sing, if people say that your voice is beautiful..your voice is beautiful…but that way
you sing doesn’t make me paying attention to you..I don’t understand about
your style..honestly..
By the underlined utterances of Dhani’s comment, it means that Dhani
expressed his comment directly that he didn’t like Ryan’s performance. It can be seen
from his statement “saya gak menyukai cara kamu menyanyi”.
From the commentators’ comment above, it can be seen that female
commentators, in this study which are presented by Tantri Kotak and Titi DJ express ther idea that contestant’s performance is out of their expectation in indirect way.
While, male commentators; Anang Hermansyah and Ahmad Dhani express their idea of Ryan’s performance differently. They express it in direct ways. In these examples,
female commentators try to keep closeness, they want to express her dissatisfaction in a form of suggestion, but actually they have intention to deliver the message that they didn’t like the contestants’ performance. Female commentators also encourage the
contestant to improve their performance using the utterances which show closeness and intimacy. Meanwhile, in male commentators’ comment, they show their independence by uttering their comment directly and explicitly. From their comment, it can be seen that males gain their status and keep it. They express their idea directly and resist it vocally.
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how they express their compliment, how they give critique and how they give suggestion for the contestant in Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show 2014.
In this show, the commentators give comment for the contestant spontaneously after the performance without any scenario before the show begun, because the show is broadcasted in live situation. Based on the explanation above, the researcher chooses the commentator’s comment in Spectacular Live Show of
Indonesian Idol 2014 as the source of data in this study.
1.2The Problems of the Study
Based on the background in the previous part, the problems of the study are formulated as the following:
1. How do male and female commentators give comment to the
contestants’ performance in Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show 2014?
2. What are the differences between male and female commentators’ comment for contestants’ performance in Indonesian Idol Spectacular
Show 2014?
8 1.3The Objective of the Study
Based on the problem of the study, the objectives of the research are to find out:
1. the way of male and female commentators give comment to the contestants’ performance in Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show
2014
2. the differences between male and female commentators’ comment for contestants’ performance in Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show
2014.
3. the reason of male and female commentators give comment to the contestant’s performance in the way they are
1.4The Scope of the Study
This study is talking about language and gender; the way of males and females communicate in social life. In this study, the researcher focuses on the different ways of males and females commentators in commenting contestants’ performance in Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show 2014. The
9 1.5The Significance of the Study
Findings of this study are expected to be useful theoretically, practically and linguistically in some respects.
1. Theoretically, findings of this study are expected to enrich the theories in sociolinguistics field, especially for subtopic language and gender, particularly gender study in Television Show program.
2. Practically, findings of this study are expected to help to promote mutual respect by showing how people should appreciate and the style of communication of both male and female and avoid miscommunication between them. These findings are also expected to increase the understanding of how verbal behavior conducted by males and females in doing interaction with others and help either males and females to use the appropriate verbal behavior in interaction to create good atmosphere in communication.
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CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
1.1Conclusions
This study was concerned on gender differences on the way of communication of male and female commentators in Indonesian Idol Spectacular Show 2014. It was aimed at describing how male and female commentators commented the contestants’
performance in Indonesian Idol 2014 and describing the different chatacteristics of male and female commentators in the way they commented the contestants’
performance. After analyzing the data, some conclusions can be stated as the following:
1. Both male and female commentators in Indonesian Idol 2014 used rapport and report talk in their way of communication, but male commentators used report talk more in delivering their comment for the contestants’ performance. Meanwhile, female commentators tended to use rapport talk more in delivering their comment for the contestant.
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the contestants. However, “conflict” as male charactiristics and “compromise” as female characteristics were not found in this findings.
3. The reason why male commentators of Indonesian Idol used report talk whereas female commentators used rapport talk was because male treated the language as a way to give factual information, whereas females did it as a way to negotitate closeness and intimacy.
1.2Suggestions
Due to the above conclusions, it is necessary to give suggestions as the following:
a. It is suggested to the readers to increase their understanding of how males and females communicate in their interaction to other people since gender differences in communication potentially create misunderstanding.
b. It is suggested to other researchers especially the researchers majoring in English Applied Linguistics to conduct further research in other field of making communications, such as in daily conversation, debate, speech and so on to develop the theory of gender differences in communication and also to enrich the researchers and the readers’ knowledge on gender differences
theories.
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