Taboo language on Indonesian young adults’ instagram: the analysis of its types and functions  

Oleh:

Saputra, Robertus Bayu ; Kusuma, Paulina Chandrasari

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 424-428.
Topik: taboo words; type; communicative functions; Instagram
Fulltext: 424-428 Robertus Bayu Saputra, Paulina Chandrasari Kusuma.pdf (357.82KB)

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Social media has become an integral part of people's life. Not only adults, but also teenagers are active users of social media sites on which they share everyday activities, happenings, feelings, thoughts, and feelings and maintain their social link. In other words, people 'interact' and 'communicate' through social media. Compared to offline communication, interaction on social media has its own characteristics (Wang et al, 2014). Its special characteristics include the use of curse and taboo words by the account's owners. To address this specialty of taboo words on social media, this paper examines the use of taboo words on social media. In particular, this study aims to, firstly, identify the types of English taboo words produced by Indonesian young adult Instagram users on their Instagram accounts. Secondly, it attempts to reveal the communicative functions of their captions and comments from the similar account in the social media. Wardaugh's (2006) taboo word classification and Jay's (1999) functions of taboo words are used for the analysis of the data. The result of this study which involves four different accounts of Instagram belonging to four different users shows that six categories of taboo words, namely sex, death, excretion, bodily functions, religious matter, and animal are identified in their postings. An addition to that, from the 63 occurrences of taboo words, it is figured out that they mainly serve the functions of demonstrating various emotional situations, stating humor, talking about sexual matters as well as a means of expressing insults.

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