MALE/ FEMALE DOMINATION IN CROSS-SEX CONVERSATION A Thesis Presented as Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement to Obtain the Sarjana Sastra Degree in the English Letters Study Programme
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- Topic is important to make a conversation run well because in the conversation people send the message and get the message in accordance with the topic that they discuss. According to Arliss (1991: 50), Harding (1975: 106), Haas & Sherman (1982: 49), Wardhaugh (1998: 316), Yelkenac (2001), Hultgren (2003), Scollon (2000), in a conversation male and female speakers have stereotyped topics to discuss. It happens because they have differences in seeing the world. In this study, the writer intends to know the male or female domination in the cross-sex conversation. This research tries to prove whether there are any relationships between topics of conversation stereotypically related to males/females and male/female domination. This study is a qualitative research. The writer recorded the conversation of the students of Faculty of Letters in Soegijapranata Catholic University who were in the OAC of Faculty of Letters Soegijapranata Catholic University. After that the recordings were transcribed to get the data. The result of the analysis shows that female speakers tend to dominate all the male’s topics. It happens because it is influenced by some factors. The factors that influence the female speakers are female speakers tend to be more talkative than male speakers, female speaker tend to keep the interaction among other speakers, and the female speakers are influenced by the environment they live and interact. However, no male speakers can dominate the female’s topics. The factors that influenced them are such as male speakers are not interested in female’s topics and the male speakers tend to see the female’s topics as nothing but just gossip.