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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is a sociolinguistics study of the Indonesian male?s
and female?s language, especially about the different ways of making
request among males and females- Request as one kind of speech acts can
be expressed in the various ways. However, the distribution and the use of
those forms are sometimes indistinct in any communicative situations.
This study attempts to observe and find the distribution of the
request variation by using gender differences as the variables since male
and female use a distinctive linguistics form. Supporting this study, Ervin-Tripps?
and Poedjosoedarmo?s request forms and styles are used in order to
show the variation of the request.
In order to complete the study, the writer uses questionnaire to
collect data, and male students of Electrical Engineering Department and
femafe students of English Department as her respondents. Both of them
are the students of Petra Christian University from the year of 1993.
In analyzing the data, the writer presents the data into a diagram
and compares them to find the similarities and/or the differences among
the request forms and styles used by the respondents. From the
comparison between male?s and female?s data, she finds out that, in
general, female students tend to prefer the more format styles of request
when they are supposed to interact with strangers. The more casual styles
of request are used, only in their interaction with their friends. On the
contrary, male students favour more casual styles of request either when
they are supposed to involve in a communicative interaction with their
friends or strangers. The formal styles of request are used by them only
when their addressees are females.