A Feminine Stylistic Analysis of Princess Diana Speech “Does the Community Care?”

Abstract

This paper concentrates on analyzing Princess Diana speech from a feminine stylistic perspective . It achieves these aims 1) Depicting types of lexical hedge employed by Princess Diana in her speech .2) Clarifying the most prevalent form of lexical hedge is used by Princess Diana to convey her aim 3) Pinpointing women’s language features in her speech 4) illustrating the most dominant features that identify her speech .Consequently , it hypothesizes that 1) Princess Diana invests only modal verb and epistemic lexical verb as a kind of lexical hedge in her speech . 2) ) Modal verb is the most general sort of lexical hedge that distinguishes her speech. 3) Depending on Lakoff᾽s women features, Princess Diana employs lexical hedge , tag question and intensifiers in her speech . 4) Intensifier is the preponderant feature that specifies her speech .This study ends with these points 1) Princess Diana employs epistemic lexical verbs , modal verbs , modal adjective and modal adverb as sorts of lexical hedge in her speech . 2) Modal verb is the common sort of lexical hedge that distinguishes her speech . 3) Princess Diana executes only lexical hedge , empty adjective , intensifiers and hyper correct grammar in her speech . 4 ) Lexical hedge is the dominant feature that specifies her speech .

Keywords: Feminine Stylistics , princess Diana's speech, types of Lexical hedge

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/16-9-06

Publication date:August 31^st 2025