A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF GENDERED LANGUAGE IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S ‘GIRL’ USING SPEECH ACT THEORY AND DEFICIT MODEL

This paper examines gendered language in Jamaica Kincaid’s (born 1949) short story ‘Girl’ through J. L. Austin’s Speech Act Theory and Robin Lakoff’s Deficit Model. Structured as a monologue of maternal instructions, the narrative provides a lens to analyze language’s performative function in reinfo...

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Main Authors: Shokhan Mohammed Fatah, Areen Ahmed Muhammed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara (UISU) 2025-06-01
Series:Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
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Online Access:https://jurnal.uisu.ac.id/index.php/languageliteracy/article/view/10654
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