Putro, Imanuel Patricia Deo Sunarko (0012) A comparative analysis of masculine language features and speech functions in Juli Baker and Bryce Loski from Flipped (2010). Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Humanities.

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Abstract

Traditionally, the use of specific language features has been linked to a specific gender. However, gendered language is now understood as more socially than biologically constructed. Thus, both women and men have begun adapting language features traditionally associated with the opposite gender. Therefore, this undergraduate thesis explores gendered language, specifically masculine language features in the utterances of the main characters in Flipped (2010), namely Juli Baker and Bryce Loski. The objectives of this thesis are to identify the types of masculine language features used by the main characters based on Coates’s (2016) theory, and to explain how speech functions and character backgrounds reflect the differences in their use of masculine language features through Holmes’s (2013) theory of speech functions and a chi-square test. The results show that all masculine language features are present in the main characters’ utterances to some extent, with four speech functions serving as the communicative purposes behind their use. Furthermore, the distribution of masculine language features between the two characters is significant (p = 0.0034).

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