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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study investigates the type of linguistic features of male and
femaje students of Petra Christian University and the gender influences on the
direction-giving conversation. In order to categorize their linguistic features,
the writer uses a conversation model of direction-giving conversation of
Scottpn and Bernsten (1988). The subjects of this study are 25 male and
femaje students and taken randomly without considering their social
background, but only their sexes. To collect the data, the writer posed as the
direction seeker, a student of one university, who was finding out the location
of the University Auditorium. While making conversation, the writer recorded
the conversation as natural as possible. Through analyzing, the writer found
that surnmary-like statement, bald imperative, and closing informal are the
type of linguistic features that mostly used by the students. Meanwhile, the
gender differences of the direction giver influences on summary-like statement
in the opening unit, which make the opening unit of the female longer, and on
you + verb directive, indirect directives, and parenthetical remark, which make
the female's directives longer, more various, and more indirect than males'. In
addition, both male and female students have a great tendency not to
synthesize the directions in the pre-closing unit; rather, some of them are more
likely to give suggestion or offering. Indirect directive which begins with
extraposition clause and which implies more direct directive, and
comprehension check do not appear in the direction-giving conversations of
the female and male students of Petra Christian University.