Impoliteness Strategies and Power Performed by Netizens on Twitter
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2021Author
Pangaribuan, Rugun Mastiar
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Rangkuti, Rahmatsyah
Lubis, Roma Ayuni A
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This thesis entitled Impoliteness Strategies and Power Performed by Netizens on Twitter. The purposes in this thesis are to find out the impoliteness strategy used by netizens in commenting on the actor's tweet and to find out the form of tweet comments made by netizens. This study employes descriptive qualitative method. The sources of the data were tweet by Jefri Nichol. In analyzing the data, theory of Culpeper is used to describe the kinds impoliteness strategies that netizens used in their tweet comments. The result of this research shows that there are 85 data of tweet comments which are categorized into four types, they are bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, and sarcasm or mock politeness. Actually there are five impoliteness strategies by culpeper, but only four are used here because one is withhold politeness is a strategy where someone is silent without responding to someone and this can only be used when we communicate directly (not in social media). The findings suggest that the netizens are anger and uncomfortable on Jefri's tweet because his tweet is like carrying someone's physical/face, where the things like this is a very sensitive topic Skripsi ini berjudul Impoliteness Strategies and Power Performed by Netizens on Twitter.Tujuan dalam tesis ini adalah untuk mengetahui strategi ketidaksopanan yang digunakan oleh netizen dalam mengomentari tweet aktor tersebut dan untuk mengetahui bentuk komentar tweet yang dibuat oleh netizen.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif.Sumber datanya di-tweet oleh Jefri Nichol. Dalam menganalisis data, teori Culpeper digunakan untuk menggambarkan macam-macam strategi ketidaksopanan yang digunakan netizen dalam komentar tweet mereka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 85 data komentar tweet yang dikategorikan menjadi empat jenis, yaitu bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, dan sarcasm or mock politeness. Namun hanya empat yang digunakan disini karena yang satu adalah withhold politeness dimana seseorang diam tanpa merespon seseorang dan ini hanya bisa digunakan ketika kita berkomunikasi secara langsung (bukan di media sosial). Temuan tersebut menunjukkan bahwa para netizen sangat marah dan tidak nyaman dengan tweet Jefri karena tweetnya seperti membawa fisik/wajah seseorang, dimana hal seperti ini menjadi topik yang sangat sensitif.
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