Women’s Language Features in Making Request in Pride and Prejudice Movie Syafda Dini Pratiwi 1* , Ike Revita 2 {syafdadinipratiwi@gmail.com 1 , ikerevita@hum.unand.ac.id 2 } Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia 12 Abstract. Women are the creatures that are required to speak more politely than men. The phenomenon is in line with the gender perspective where men and women are different socially. Then, they are also treated unsimilarly. The use of women’s language features will support the politeness of the women's statement. Therefore, it can represent their social status in society. Besides, there must be certain functions of women’s language features, especially when making the request. A request is an act of asking something and asking someone to do something. This article aims to describe the functions of women’s language features when making requests depicted in the movie Pride and Prejudice. The data were taken from a high rating movie titled Pride and Prejudice 2005. The movie filmed five sisters from an English family who deal with marriage, morality, and misconception issues. All requests from women’s utterances became the data. The observational method with the non-participant technique was used to collect the data. The result of the analysis was presented narratively. After analyzing the data, it is found that there are two functions used by the women characters in Pride and Prejudice movie in making requests indicating their language features. They are 1) hedging devices and 2) boosting devices. Keywords: functions of women’s language features, request, women’s language features utterances 1 Introduction Language is a set of symbols in the form of written, spoken, and signed, which are used by humans to communicate with each other. As social creatures, both men and women use language to communicate. However, several differences occur when both men and women are communicating, even though they use the same language. It means that both men and women use language differently in their speech. That is why women used women’s language features when doing communication. Anjani (2009) [17], found there are three reasons of why women decided to use women’s language features. The first one is because women are the guardian or role of the society, women is more status conscious than men, and women are categorized as subordinate group in society. Holmes [1] stated that men tend to focus on the context of the talk. Meanwhile, women focus on how the talk affects the feelings of others. It can be seen in the following utterances 1-2 how women talk by considering the feeling of others: 1. Can I wear your spotted muslin? Oh please, Jane 2. Well, tell me quickly, my love ICGCS 2021, August 30-31, Padang, Indonesia Copyright © 2022 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.30-8-2021.2316297