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The use of women's language with a Balinese cultural background with a patriarchal culture is interesting to analyze. The novel 'Tempurung' by Oka Rusmini tells the story of women with Balinese cultural backgrounds. There are sixteen female characters in this novel, while three are male characters. This study analyzes the features of women's language used by female characters, which are analyzed using the referential, pragmatic, and distribution methods. Based on the results of the analysis, female characters use eight out of ten features of the female language, namely intensifier (40.72%), empty adjectives (17.01%), tag questions (16.49%), super polite form (7.22%), rising intonation on declarative (6.70%), hypercorrect grammar (6.70%), emphatic stress (3.09%), and lexical hedges or fillers (2.06%). Avoid strong swear words, and female characters do not apply precise colour terms. Female characters' use of women's language features is motivated by a patriarchal culture that makes men superior while women are inferior. The caste system in Balinese culture also underlies the use of female language features by female characters, for example, using polite forms when speaking with interlocutors who have a higher caste.

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Utami, N. N. A. (2022). Penggunaan Fitur Bahasa Perempuan pada Novel Tempurung Karya Oka Rusmini. Diglosia: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Pengajarannya, 5(2), 327-340. https://doi.org/10.30872/diglosia.v5i2.282

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Deciphering Indonesia in its myriad shades through its female writers

Jakarta (ANTARA) - International Women's Day is celebrated worldwide to honor women and their accomplishments and acknowledge what women have yet to achieve.

This year's International Women's Day is themed #EachforEqual that forges a gender equal world.

As in several parts of the world, women in Indonesia have a long-standing history of struggling for equality and the story continues until this day.

However, for some people, who find it dreary to learn about history, reading some fiction from the country's prominent female writers can be a good option to acknowledge women's role and depiction in Indonesian society, as well as their struggle and empowerment.

Here are ANTARA's choices for female writers whose pieces you can read to spend March 8:


1. N.H. Dini

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Later, Sri found warmth and comfort in Michel, a captain of the ship she knew while sailing from Saigon to Marseille. With the marriage of Michel and his wife, Nicole, running into rough waters, he and Sri then began cheating on their partners.

Sri, a Javanese woman, is described as boldly breaking the rules since she can no longer go through an unhappy marriage.

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    Saya belum pernah pergi ke Bali, jangankan ke Bali naik pesawat saja saya belum pernah. Ah katanya pengagum Habibie. Ironis memang. Tapi setelah membaca novel Tarian Bumi, setidaknya saya tahu sedikit tentang kultur di Bali.
    Jika novelis Inggris, Graham Greene, merasa telah menemukan India yang sebenarnya justru dalam novel-novel dan cerita-cerita pendek yang di tulis R.K. Narayan, maka tak berlebihan jika kita telah menenmukan Bali yang sebenarnya melalui novel ini. (Horison, Juli 2001)

    Novel ini saya beli 2 minggu yang lalu (14 maret 2010) saat ada obral buku, di toko buku Gramedia, Depok. Saat sedang asik melempar-lempar buku obral—berlebihan memang—buku inilah yang saya lihat menarik dan yang lebih penting murah harganya, yah namanya juga obral. Setelah dengan “iseng” membuka lapisan sampul plastik pelindung buku—bagian ini jangan ditiru—ternyata buku ini merupakan salah satu novel yang fenomenal sekaligus kontroversial.

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