Presupposition and Women’s language: Women’s Empowerment in Asma Elbadawi’s Utterances in Social Media

Rahmani, Niswah Qintara (2025) Presupposition and Women’s language: Women’s Empowerment in Asma Elbadawi’s Utterances in Social Media. IDEAS Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, 13 (1). pp. 2270-2281. ISSN 2338-4778

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Abstract

This study analyzed linguistic strategies in conveying women's empowerment messages through social media, focusing on Instagram and YouTube. By combining Robin Lakoff’s women's language theory and George Yule’s presupposition theory, this research highlights how specific language choices construct empowerment narratives. Using a descriptive qualitative method and purposive sampling technique, it analyzes posts and statements centered on women's empowerment. The study reveals the use of various of women's language features such—lexical hedges, intensifiers, and empty adjectives—alongside presuppositions like existential and factive presupposition, this research contributes to both linguistic and gender studies by demonstrating how everyday discourse subtly reinforces gendered identities and supports broader empowerment movement.

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