Language style in Mr.D's instagram account

Parawati, Nilmanis (2020) Language style in Mr.D's instagram account. Masters thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

As social beings, we interact with each other. One kind of interaction is by communicating. In communicating, we need media to share our ideas, desires, intentions, and purposes to others such as Instagram. Instagram is currently the most popular media application among young people around the world. In communicating in a true life or through social media, everyone used different language in a different situation. That called language style. Language style is the chosen of words used by a specific group of people when speaking in a place and one condition. We can know the background of a person through the style of the language he/she used. Besides language style, there is another thing which also has an essential role in communication that is language function. Therefore, this research purposed to find out what language style used in Mr.D’s Instagram account and what of the language function used in Mr.D’s Instagram account. This research uses descriptive qualitative with a content analysis approach. The data were collected from one of educator Instagram account named Mr.D or Mr. Danish. He is a comedian who teaches English through social media of Instagram. This study is analyzed by using Martin Joos, Kirszner and Mandel’s theory for answering the first research problem about the language style and using Holmes’ theory for answering the second problem about the language function. Based on Martin Joos’, Kirszner and Mandel’s theory, there is seven language style. They are frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual style, intimate style, slang style, and colloquial style. Moreover, there are six language function; these include expressive function, directive, referential, metalinguistic, poetic and phatic function. The conclusion of this research, there are six from seven of language style found in Mr.D’s Instagram account. They are casual style (48%), colloquial style (20%), consultative style (12%), intimate style (8%), slang style (8%) and formal style (4%). There is no frozen style in this research due to the frozen style not appropriate used in this condition. Meanwhile, there are six of language function found in Mr.D’s Instagram account; they are Expressive (32%), directive (28%), referential (12%), poetic (12%), phatic (12%) and metalinguistic function (4%). Finally, the researcher hopes this research could give a contribution to the researcher, to the reader, and the further researcher. Moreover, it is recommended

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Caption; Language Style; Language Function
Subjects: Language
Divisions: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Program Studi Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Nilmanis Parawati
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2020 04:02
Last Modified: 16 Sep 2020 04:20
URI: https://digilib.uinsgd.ac.id/id/eprint/33436

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