<![CDATA[This research discusses the features and function of women’s language used by Jo March in the Little Women movie. The researcher conducted this research by using Lakoff's theory (2004) to identify the types of women’s language features and Holmes and Wilson's theory (2022) to identify the function of women’s language. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from Jo March's speech. In this study, the researcher found 9 out of 10 types of women’s language features which are lexical hedges or fillers, rising intonation on declarative, empty adjectives, precise color terms, intensifiers, hypercorrect grammar, super polite forms, avoidance of strong swear words and emphatic stress. The most dominant women’s language feature is hypercorrect grammar with 10 out of 35 Jo March utterances. There are 2 functions of the women’s language features which are weakening function (hedges devices) and strengthening function (booster devices). Then the most dominant function of women’s language features is weakening function (hedges devices) with 20 out of 35 Jo March utterances. This study contributes to sociolinguistic studies by demonstrating how women’s language features and their functions, based on Lakoff’s and Holmes and Wilson’s theories, are represented through a female character in movie.]]>
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