GENDER DIFFERENCES ON COMMENTATORS’ COMMENT IN SPECTACULAR SHOW OF INDONESIAN IDOL 2014

This research deals with the way of male and female commentators in delivering comment in Indonesian Idol 2014. The objectives of this research were to describe the way of male and female commentators give comment to the contestant, to derive the characteristics of male and female commentators’ comment and to elaborate the reason of male and female commentators give comment to the contestant’s performance the way they are. This research was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative research. The data of this study were 60 utterances of male commentators and 44 utterances of female commentators which were selected from 3 episodes of Indonesian Idol 2014. The findings showed that male commentators tend to use report talk in delivering their idea in commenting contestants’ performance, while female commentators tend to use rapport talk in commenting contestants’ performance in Indonesian Idol 2014. Male commentators frequently show the characteristics of male communication, such as; status, independence, advice, information and order in their way of commenting contestants’ performance. While, female commentators show their support, understanding, feeling, proposal and intimacy in their comments to the contestants. The reason why male commentators use report talk whereas female commentators use rapport talk is because male treat the language as a way to give factual information, whereas females do the language as a way to negotiate closeness and intimacy.