GENDER DIFFERENCES ON MALE AND FEMALE’S POLITICAL SPEECH

The objectives of this study were to describe the ways of male and female politicians deliver speech in political field, to derive the characteristics of male and female’s political speech and to elaborate the reason of male and female politicians deliver their political speech. This research conducted by applying descriptive qualitative research. The data of this study were 92 utterances of male politician and 51 utterances of female politician which were selected from male and female politicians’ presidential announcement speech in United State from year 2015. The findings showed that male and female politician used both report and rapport talk in delivering their speech. Male mostly used report talk than rapport talk in order to show his self confidence and his status, and used rapport talk to gain relationship with other to gain support while female combine the both talk types in almost same amounts tend to imitate male speech behavior in order to defend her status and gain relationship with others. Male politician frequently show the characteristic of male communication, such as; status, independence, advice, information and order in his way of delivering speech. While, female politician showed her support, intimacy, understanding, feeling, proposal in her speech. The reason why male politician used report talk whereas female politician used rapport talk is because male treats the language to give factual information, tease or thread other and show or keep his status and power, whereas female did it as a way to negotiate closeness and intimacy.