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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn communication, people use different varieties of the same language. The
variety can be included in the standard language and also the non-standard one. Different
varieties of language are used because of several reasons. One of them is gender.
Different gender may affect people to use different variety. Sociolingusitics study shows
that men and women speak differently. Many linguistics believe that men use more nonstandard
language than women. That is why, the writer was interested in analyzing the
kinds of non-standard Indonesian expressions used by men and women readers in written
language. As the data, the writer chose For Him Magazine and Cosmopolitan Magazine
as the representatives of men and women language. The writer wanted to find out the
kinds of non-standard Indonesian expressions used by either men and women, and
whether men use more non-standard expressions than women. The data were analyzed
and classified based on the linguistic forms - word, phrase, clause, or sentence - and the
kinds of non-standard Indonesian expressions. The result of the analysis showed that
several kinds of non-standard Indonesian expressions were used both by men and women
readers. The kinds of non-standard Indonesian expressions found in FHM and
Cosmopolitan were the use of non-standard or vernacular dialect, the use of foreign
language (English), the combination of Indonesian and English, and the use of
unnecessary affixes. The data also revealed some kinds of non-standard expressions in
FHM that did not exist in Cosmopolitan; the use of suffix - in, the use of affix di - in,
deletion, and substitution of one or more letters. On the contrary, the kind of non-standard
Indonesian expressions in Cosmopolitan that was not found in FHM was the adaptation
of foreign language. In terms of the linguistic forms, the men readers also used more
various linguistic forms than women readers. Except for the non-standard features in
forms of verb phrase, adjectival phrase, and clause, the writer also found features in FHM
which were in the forms of verb and function words; two features that were not found in
Cosmopolitan. Moreover, the writer also found out that in the case of these two
magazines, men used more non-standard Indonesian expressions than women.