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Women Language ‘Hidden Figure’ Movie Script Written By Allison Shroeder and Theodore Melfi Yuniar Fatmasari; Rita Gustina
Metaphor Vol 2 No 1 (2020): Vol 2 No 1 (2020): Linguistics, Analysis of Literary Work, English Teaching and L
Publisher : Faculty of Language and Literature, Universitas Sains Al-Qur'an

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Many factors can affect the way people communicate. One of them is gender. Compared to the men, women tend to use many language variations. Understanding the language variation used by women is important, so that its language function. In this research, the writers analyze the women's language features used by female characters in "Hidden Figures" movie script written by A. Schroeder and T. Melfi together with its functions. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The research’s results show that female characters in “Hidden Figures” movie use 28% lexical hedges (28 expressions), 2% tag question (2 expressions), 4% rising intonation on declaratives (4 expressions), 3% empty adjective (3 expressions), 36% intensifiers (35 expression), 1% hypercorrect grammar (1 expression), 17% superpolite forms (17 expressions), 4% avoidance of strong swear word (4 expressions), and 5% emphatic stress (5 expressions). Intensifier features is the most dominant in women language features realized in “Hidden Figures” movie script. Whereas the function of the language used by women here are referential functions, emotive functions and conative functions.
Resistance in Lady Bird, a Movie by Greta Gerwig Yuniar Fatmasari; Aniq Kanafillah
Metaphor Vol 3 No 2 (2021): Analysis of Literary Works and Linguistics
Publisher : Faculty of Language and Literature, Universitas Sains Al-Qur'an

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A movie is a work of literature bringing out perspective of social issue, to mention here is a woman in its relation with system of society. Resistance is one among several ways of how women interact with wider society. After watching Lady Bird movie written and directed by Greta Gerwig, the writers found that the idea of resistance is vividly seen. Thus, this study is to find out the main character’s resistance in the movie. To reveal the main character’s resistance, this study uses descriptive qualitative research so that all information, conditions, symptoms, and phenomena can be described in detail. There are two kinds of resistances found, the first is resistance toward the family and the second is resistance toward the wider society.
The Use of Simile in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre Yuniar Fatmasari; Nikhla Khotmalinda
Metaphor Vol 4 No 1 (2021): Literary Analysis and Linguistics
Publisher : Faculty of Language and Literature, Universitas Sains Al-Qur'an

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In literary works, the use of beautiful language is used by the author as efforts to enrich the impression, and expand the imagination of the readers. Sometimes, readers often encounter difficulties in understanding the meaning of those unliteral words. One of the keys to understanding the meaning of words is to understand figurative language. Knowing figurative language especially similes can make us able to understand the implicit or explicit meaning of literary works. In this study, the writers analyze the simile used in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. This qualitative study focuses on the simile type human, treats, and feelings as formulated by Reimer (2018). Reading the novel and labeling the data is the method of data collection then describing the data based on its semantic meaning is the method of data analysis. The research's results show that there are 29 utterances belong to similes type human treats, people, and feelings.