GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CONVERSATIONAL STYLE IN
“APA KABAR INDONESIA TALK SHOW NEWS
PROGRAM ON TVONE”
A Thesis
Submitted to Post-Graduate School English Applied Linguistic Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Magister Humaniora
By:
YULIA WARDA
Registration Number: 8106111042
ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTIC STUDY PROGRAM
POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
MEDAN
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CONVERSATIONAL STYLE IN
“APA KABAR INDONESIA TALK SHOW NEWS
PROGRAM ON TVONE”
A Thesis
Submitted to Post-Graduate School English Applied Linguistic Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Magister Humaniora
By:
YULIA WARDA
Registration Number: 8106111042
ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTIC STUDY PROGRAM
POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
MEDAN
ABSTRACT
Warda, yulia. Gender Differences in Conversational Style in “ApaKabar Indonesia Talk Show News on Tvone”.Thesis.English Applied Linguistics Study Program.Post Graduate School.State University of Medan 2013.
ABSTRAK
Wardayulia, Gender Differences in Conversational Style in “ApaKabar Indonesia Talk Show News on Tvone”( perbedaan gender dan gaya percakapan dalam program talk show beritaApakabar Indonesia di Tvone ). Tesis. Program Studi Linguistik Terapan Bahasa Inggris. Sekolah Pasca Sarjana Universitas Negeri Medan 2013.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all I would like to extend writer’s endless gratitude to Allah SWT
who has given me strength to finish this thesis as one the requirements to gather
the degree of Magister Humaniora.
The writer would like to express her sincere gratitude to Prof.
AmrinSaragih, Ph.D, her first adviser, for the valuable time spent in giving the
suggestions, comments, and criticism to qualify the content of this thesis. She also
would like to express her deep and sincere gratitude for Prof. T, Silvana Sinar,
M.A., Ph,D her second adviser who has spent her time for giving support, advise
and idea to complete this thesis.
She also extends most sincere gratitude to the broad examiners Prof.
Dr.Busmin Gurning, M.Pd., Dr. Eddy Setia, M.Ed, and Dr. Didik Santoso, M.Pd.
for their constructive comments, suggestions and valuable time for the
improvement of this thesis.
The writer also would like to express her sincere gratitude to Dr. Sri
MindaMurni, M.Si as the secretary to English Applied Linguistics Program, for
her assistance regarding the administrative procedures and all lecturers who have
taught her valuable knowledge and attitude.
She would like also to extend most sincere gratitude to her beloved parents
Abdul manaf and Sumayani for giving support, care, prayers, love and advice.
Their patience, support, care, prayers, love and advice have been spirit to
complete this thesis. Her appreciation is also dedicated to her younger sister
PanjaitanM.hum, ruri , putri, sister evi and ika and for all my friends at LTBI A2
who had given her supports and suggestions for completing this thesis.
Finally, the writer is aware of this thesis is far from being perfect.
Therefore, she had been high appreciation for all constructive critics for its
improvement.
Medan, 10 maret 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.1The Background of the Study ...1
1.2The Problems of the Study ...6
1.3The Objectives of the Study ...6
1.4 The Scopes of the Study ...7
1.5The Significances of the Study ...8
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 Gender in Interaction...9
2.2 The Characteristics of Male and Female language ...10
2.2.1 Six Differences of Men and Women in Communication ...11
2.2.2 Growing up Male and Female ...15
2.3 Conversational Style ...17
2.3.2 Difference in Conversational Style ...21
2.4 Talk Show ...22
2.4.1 Apakabar Indonesia Talk Show News ...23
2.4.2 BukanEmpat Mata Talk Show ...24
2.4.3 TVONE ...26
2.5 Conceptual Framework ...27
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD 3.1 Research Design...30
3.2 Data and Data Source ...30
3.3 Techniques of Data Collection ...30
3.4 Techniques of Data Analysis ...31
3.5 Trustworthiness ...33
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS, FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Data Analysis ...36
4.1.1 The Features of Conversational Style Used by Male and female Presenters ...38
4.1.1.1 Amount of Talk Feature ...40
4.1.1.2 Interruption Feature ...52
4.1.1.3 Conversation Support feature ...59
4.1.1.5 Compliment Feature ...65
4.2 The Different Ways of Male and Female Presenteres in AKI on TVONE ...67
4.3 Reasons of Male and Female Presenters Use Style Differently ...86
4.4 Findings ...92
4.5 Discussions ...94
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 5.1 Conclusions ...98
5.2 Suggestions ...99
LIST OF TABLES
Pages
Table 1 ... 11
Table 2 ... 12
Table 3 ... 16
Table 4 ... 19
LIST OF FIGURE
Page
LIST OF MATRICES
Pages
Matrix 1.1 ... 38
Matrix 1.2 ... 39
Matrix 1.3 ... 68
Matrix 1.4 ... 71
Matrix 1.5 ... 73
Matrix 1.6 ... 76
Matrix 1.7 ... 80
Matrix 1.8 ... 83
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LIST OF APPENDICES
Pages
Appendix I ... 103
Appendix II... 110
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
MP : male presenter
FP : female presenter
D : doni
AS :asifrifki
GN : grace natali
PA : paramitaandini
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1The Background of the Study
Conversation is due to make the interaction, whereas speaker and listener are
able to encode and decode the messages in conversation it self, while there are
three models of interaction: first is transmitter, it means that the person sends
his/her message in communication, second is receiver it means that the person
being communicated with, and the third is noise, it is the set of factors which can
interfere the communication between transmitter and receiver.
The previous researcher, Katharine from Michigan University, discussed
gender differences in conversation style, she found that women’s share of
conversation about work and money, and it is similar to men do. But the finding
which was given by her was not complete. It is because she only focused on the
conversation topic not in some way or style in due the conversation.
In addition, Jennifer from Victoria University, she stated that men’s humor
revolves more often than women’s around work in same sex. In her research, she
took in same sex, she didn’t compare in mix sex to identify the men’s and
women’s humor.
Language used by male and female presenters in “Coffee Break on Tvone”, it
can be seen that male and female presenters used conversation support in their
AJ (male presenter): 24 hari, ada seminggu lah buat jalan-jalan ya kan..
AJ (male presenter) : ya pemirsa anda pernah terbuai dengan kisah
percintaan di mesir sana, waktu itu dengan ayat-ayat cinta. Nah ini juga
dengan salah satu cerita dengan latar belakang mesir dan pemain yang cakep
dan cantik.
AJ (male presenter) : anda telah terpilih sebagai peran Azam di film “ketika
cinta bertasbih” pasti anda sangat senang dan bangga ya mendapatkan peran
ini.
From the utterances above, male presenter (Andi jarot) is dominantly
expressed conversation support than female presenter does in due to the
interaction. He expressed conversation support to gather more information about
the topic of “Ketika Cinta Bertasbih” and he effort for more dominant in taking
the floor of conversation, in order to he can maintain the topic of discussion in the
talk show news effort.
Female presenter expressed conversation support in “coffee break”, for
instance:
Female Presenter : pasti bersyukurnya bukan main ya..terpilih dari
6.548 orang ya…
Female Presenter : ya aduh menyenangkan sekali ya..
Relating to the utterances above, female presenter uttered conversation
support, because they are interested in her statement’s interviewee, and she effort
Based on the utterances of male and female presenters above, it can be
concluded that male presenter is dominantly used conversation support than
female presenter does in the phenomena of talk show “Coffee Break”, but they
have different goal when uttered conversation support, while male presenter
expressed it to be more dominant in taking the floor of conversation and they want
to gather much more information from their interviewee, whereas female
presenter has expressed conversation support to be interested in her partner of
conversation, in order to she effort to make warm feeling and closeness to her
interviewee.
Pamela found that women are more dominantly used conversation support
than men. Based on the phenomena of “Coffee Break” it is found that male
presenter is dominantly uttered conversation support than female presenter does.
Certainly it is contrasted with Fishman view’s which is stated that women are
dominantly used conversation support than men speakers do.
Nevertheless, researcher conducts gender, whereas gender is describing male
and female do, it is determined how do male and female express their language
use in due to interaction. Theoretically, male and female have different way in
communication (Tannen: 1992), she says that male tends to use his logic to tell
something, whereas female tends to use her emotion and feeling in conversation.
Tannen adds six differences of communication between men and women, such as;
status versus support, independence versus intimacy, advice versus understanding,
information versus feeling, order versus proposal and conflict versus compromise.
According to Swann (2000:225) based on empirical studies of gender and talk
talk, tentativeness, conversational support, interruption, and compliments. These
features are shown the different styles of male and female speakers in
conversation.
Based on Tannen’s book about you just don’t understand while she observes
men and women in doing conversation. She finds that males’ conversation is the
way to negotiate your status in the group and keep people from pushing you
around; you use talk to preserve your independence, whereas female’s
conversation to negotiate closeness and intimacy; talk is the essence of intimacy
so being best friends. It is concluded that male and female exactly have different
cultural background.
Six differences of communication between male and female speakers can be
seen based on the conversation of talk show “coffee break” on TV ONE. For
instance:
Male presenter: untuk menuju destinasi dunia, Jabar mempunyai prinsip sapta pesona,,, apa itu sapta pesona pak?
Female presenter: nah…untuk menyegarkan ini pak…ada ketemu kemacetan..bagaimana caranya bisa mengurai kemacetan yang ada di Bandung setiap sabtu minggu hadir pak?
These dialogues male presenter is expressed proposal, because he did not
directly go to the point of discussion when he ask for information about “sapta
pesona” to his interviewee, whereas female presenter is uttered conflict in her
way of communication, because she interrupted her interviewee for asking how is
The data above are concluded that male presenter used proposal in his way of
communication, while female presenter used conflict in her way of
communication. In order to male didn’t only communicate by male-like strategies,
but also male presenter was able to communicate by female-like strategies and
vice versa female didn’t only communicate by female-like strategies, but also
female presenter was able to communicate by male-like strategies. It is contrast
with Tannen which is stated male speakers to be status, independence, conflict,
order, information, and advice, while female speakers to be intimacy, support,
proposal, feeling, understanding and compromise. But based on the phenomena
in the talk show coffee break found that male presenter is uttered proposal by
female-like strategies and female is uttered conflict by male-like strategies.
Based on the phenomenon of language use in talk show, it is believed that
male presenter is able to communicate by female-like strategies and female
presenter also is able to communicate by male-like strategies. That is my reason to
choose gender differences and conversation style in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk
Show News Program on TVone”, is there any differences of conversation style
between male and female presenters or just the same of their conversation style
between them in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk Show News Program on TVone”.
Relating to the fact, the researcher puts the emphasis of this research 1. The
features of conversational style are used by male and female presenters in talk
show news, 2. The different ways of communication between male and female
presenters in talk show news, 3. The reasons of male and female presenters use
1.2 The Problems of the Study
Based on the background, the problems are formulated as the following.
1. What are the features of conversational styles are used by male and female
presenters in talk show news?
2. How are different ways of communication between male and female
presenters realized in talk show news?
3. Why do male and female presenters use styles differently in the talk show
news?
1.3 The Objectives of the Study
Based on the problems of the study, the objectives of the research are.
1. to find out the features of conversational styles are used by male and
female presenters in conversation of talk show news
2. to find out the different ways of communication between male and female
presenters in conversation of talk show news
3. to describe why males and females presenters use the styles differently in
1.4The Scopes of the Study
The conversational style is the basic tools with which people
communication anything what is said in some way, that way is style. It can be
stated that male and female have own style in conversation. In this study, writer is
focused on the features of conversational style according to Swann (2000:225) are
used by male and female presenters in “Apa kabar Indonesia talk show news
program on TV ONE; it is any differences or just the same. The features of
conversational style are amount of talk, tentativeness, interruption, conversational
support and compliment. On the other hand, according to Tannen (1992) there are
six differences of communication between men and women, such as status versus
support, independence versus intimacy, advice versus understanding, information
1.5 The Significances of the Study
Findings of this study are expected to be useful for theoretically, practically
and academically in some respects.
1. Theoretically, findings of this study will be expected to enrich the theories
of sociolinguistics such as; Gender differences in due to conversation,
especially for students who want to observe males’ and females’ styles in
conversation, as we know that male and female have different styles in
speaking.
2. Practically, findings are expected to be useful for other researchers who
are interested in analyzing males’ and females’ characteristics in speech.
In order to, other researchers are able to find that male speakers are able to
communicate by female-like strategies and vice versa female speakers are
able to communicate by male-like strategies.
3. Academically, findings can be helpful way for developing and increasing
the world science especially in education of sociolinguistic in English
Applied Linguistic Program. Moreover, it is the specific contribution to
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1. Conclusions
This study was concerned on gender differences in conversational style used
by male and female presenters in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk Show News
Program on TVONE”. It was aimed at describing the male and female presenters’
utterances used by the features of conversational style and six differences of
communication between male and female speakers in the talk show news, and
also describing the reason of male and female presenters used style differently.
Based on data analysis, the conclusions are stated as follows:
1. The features of conversational style were used by male presenters are
different with female presenters, based on the matrix of the features of
conversational style used by male presenters are higher in using amount of
talk, interruption and conversation support features than female presenters
do in the talk show news.
2. The different ways of communication between male and female presenters
in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk Show News Program on Tvone” were
expended that male presenters are able to communicate by female-like
strategies, and vice versa female speakers are able to communicate by
male-like strategies in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk Show News Program
3. Male and female presenters used style differently in the talk show news, it
was because male and female presenters have different characteristics in
social life, and these characteristics have affected them to be having
different style in doing interaction in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk Show News Program on TVone”.
5.2. Suggestions
It is suggested to those who concerned with gender differences and
conversational style in “Apa Kabar Indonesia Talk Show News on TVONE”.
1. It is suggested to the lecturer in teaching sociolinguistic, whereas this
study can be conducted and elaborated in research field.
2. It is suggested for other researchers, who want to elaborate the study about
gender differences and conversational style in other field.
3. It is suggested for students who want to study about sociolinguistic branch
above all in mastering the characteristics of male and female speakers in
making the interaction.
4. It is suggested for readers to develop the theory of gender differences and
conversation style in due to the interaction in other field, such as; in debate
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