Analysing women's language features in Esha Chhabra's TED Talk on environmental business

Nasution, Mhd. Ibnu Hafiz, Khasanah, Sintia Nurul, Rizky, Muhammad and Degaf, Agwin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-0867 (2024) Analysing women's language features in Esha Chhabra's TED Talk on environmental business. English Journal Literacy UTAMA (EJL-UTama), 8 (2). pp. 94-104. ISSN 2655-4585

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Abstract

This research, titled "Analysing Women's Language Features in Esha Chhabra's TED Talk on Environmental Business," aims to identify the characteristics of women's language used by Esha Chhabra. The data was collected from her spoken words in the video. The study identified 41 instances of women's language features, including lexical hedges, tag questions, rising intonation, empty adjectives, intensifiers, hypercorrect grammar, super polite forms, and emphatic stress. The most frequently used feature was the intensifier, which the speaker employed to reinforce her statements and persuade the audience. While the least encountered features are tag question, hypercorrect grammar, and emphatic stress. Notably, two features—precise color terms and strong swears words—was absent. This absence is attributed to the video's business context, where strong swear words are inappropriate, and precise color terms are unnecessary. This research contributes to understanding how women's language features are utilized in professional and public speaking contexts.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	Women’s Language Features; Social Media; Esha Chhabra; TED YouTube; professional language use
Subjects:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) > 20040599 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters
Depositing User:	Dr. Agwin Degaf
Date Deposited:	14 Oct 2024 11:03

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