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![]() ![]() The most frequent feature is lexical hedges or fillers (59.49%) while no hypercorrect grammar is found. Seven women language features found namely lexical hedges or fillers, tag question, intensifier, empty adjectives, superpolite form, avoidance of strong swear words, and precise color terms. The data is taken from written script of the play which consists of eleven scenes. Due to the absence of any numeric data, this study uses descriptive qualitative approach. This study excludes emphatic stress and rising intonation on declaratives feature. This study only observes eight out of ten women language features proposed by Robin Lakoff, namely tag question, intensifier, hypercorrect grammar, hedges or fillers, empty adjectives, precise color terms, super polite form, and avoidance of strong swear words. Ten women language features proposed by Robin Lakoff is used to analyze the data. ![]() The purpose of this study is to observe the types of women language features and the most frequent women language feature used by the main women characters in the dialogue of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire play. ![]()
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