An Analysis of Women’s Language Style in Jay Shetty’s Podcast

This study aims to identify and analyze the language style used by female guest stars in Jay Shetty‟s On Purpose podcast, namely Kendall Jenner, Kim Kar-dashian, and Selena Gomez, based on Martin Joos‟ theory of language style. The main focus of this study is to determine the types of women‟s language styles used by the speakers. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. The data are collected from three selected podcast episodes using documentation and tran-scription techniques. The utterances of the speakers are then classified into Joos‟ five types of language styles, namely frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual style, and intimate style. The analysis shows that there are 97 data found in the interview with Kendall Jenner, consisting of 33 consultative styles, 63 casual styles, and one intimate style. There are 108 data found in the interview with Kim Kardashian, consisting of 49 consultative styles, 57 casual styles, and two intimate styles. Meanwhile, there are 92 data found in the interview with Selena Gomez, consisting of 27 consultative styles and 65 casual styles. The frozen and formal styles do not appear in this podcast because the nature of women‟s speech in this context tends to be conversational, spontaneous, and personal. Thus, it can be concluded that the most dominant women‟s language style used by the three guest stars is the casual style. This is characterized by the use of slang, word repetition, fillers, loose sentence structures, and informality. These findings show that the context of communication and interpersonal relationships greatly influence the choice of women‟s speech style, especially in digital conversational media such as podcasts.