BAHTERA : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol 19 No 1 (2020): Bahtera: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra, Volume 19 Nomor 1 Januari 2020

EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE DISCOURSE OF CEBONG VS KAMPRET (‘TADPOLE VS MICROBATS’) ON TWITTER

Ahmad Fadly (Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2020

Abstract

As an interactive social media, Twitter gives significat role in creating social systems. Evaluative language was intensively used on the social media. The Cebong vs Kampret issue coloured on Twitter and polarized people. By using data Tweet and Reply from Twitter during 2019 this researcher investigates evaluative language. This research results that Twitter community were very emotionally force and defense on the Cebong vs Kampret issue, depicted from many evaluative languages classified into subsystem attitude. Subsystem graduation was also intensively used in accordance to that issue. It means that Twitter community emphasized on semantic scale in evaluating things and person.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

bahtera

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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BAHTERA Journal is a double-blind peer-reviewed nasional journal promoting international scholarly exchange among researchers, academics, and professionals. BAHTERA Journal is published both in print and online two issues a year (Jan and Jul). The online version is free for access and download. ...