Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Terapan

The Analysis of Swear Words in Instagram Comments Column of @lilnasx Account

Sri Nuriah Allailah, Mohammad Febryanto, Siti Hasti — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:11:17 +0700

This research focuses on the swear words on Instagram because so many swear words can be found on social media. The Instagram @lilnasx account is one of the examples gets swear words from social media users, especially since he is famous. This research used qualitative research method to analyze swear words in Instagram comments column of @lilnasx account taken from June to September 2022. This research showed that there are four types and five functions of swear words. The types of swear words found are one dysphemistic, 30 idiomatically, 31 abusively, and 38 emphatically from 100 comments. Meanwhile, the functions of swear words found are 23 abusive, 19 humoristic, 20 expletive, three euphemistic, and 35 habitual from 100 comments.

Nominalization in The Psychology of Money Book by Morgan Housel

Elah Jalilah, Zewitra — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:16:20 +0700

The study intends to investigate the use of nominalization in The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel. Specifically, the purposes of this study are to (1) identify the types of nominalization used in “The Psychology of Money” book, and (2) identify the types of suffixes used to form the nominalization. The qualitative method was employed to explain the types of nominalizations using Halliday’s theory and the types of suffixes using Quirk’s theory. The data of this analysis were obtained from the first ten chapters of The Psychology of Money book. The results show that there are 864 nominalization words used in the book. The most dominant type (737 cases) is verb-to-noun nominalization and the rest (127 cases) is adjective-to-noun. All types of suffixes are used to create the formation of both verb-to-noun and adjective-to-noun. The findings contribute to enriching the knowledge of grammar, especially nominalization. Besides, it practically can be used for teaching and writing references.

An Analysis of Grammatical and Mechanical Errors in LIUNIC ON THINGS Products’ Captions

Muhamad Julio Moreno, Lina Meilinda, Krisna Yudha Bakhti — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:51:38 +0700

Captions are one of the most important elements in social media because they can provide context, add narrative, or engage the audience with the posted content. However, captions that are written sometimes do not comply with the language rules used. This study aims to identify the kinds of grammatical and mechanical errors found in the captions of LIUNIC ON THINGS. The study applied theories from Dulay, Burt, and Krashen's Surface Strategy Taxonomy (1982), Warriner and Griffith (1973), and Mitchell (2008). This study applied a document analysis method; the process of reviewing and evaluating documents both printed and electronic in a methodical manner. This method is useful for identifying, categorizing, analyzing, and interpreting physical data to gain understanding and come to a conclusion. From the data collection, it was found that there were 66 grammatical errors and 61 mechanical errors in 50 captions released in 2022. The results revealed that the grammatical errors found in its Instagram caption are 63.6% of misformation, 25.8% of omission, 6.1% of misordering, and 4.5% of addition. The mechanical errors, on the other hand, are 50.8% of punctuation errors, 44.3% of capitalization errors, and 4.9% of spelling errors. It can be seen that misformation is the most common grammatical error, and punctuation is the most common mechanical error. The result of this study is expected to be used as one of the evaluation resources for social media caption makers to prevent the occurrence of grammatical and mechanical errors.

The Influencers’ Language on Instagram and Twitter Captions

Hermayanti Rahma Nurfausyahbani, Dedy Setiawan — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:47:12 +0700

The major objective of this study is to analyze grammatical errors found on Instagram and Twitter captions. It is intended to recognize the most common grammatical errors so that we can be aware of the language that we use. The present study applies the theory of Dulay et al (1982) which divides errors into four types: omission, addition, misinformation, and misordering. Since all of the data are in the form of text, a method of textual analysis was applied to analyze the data. The data under analysis are taken from the captions by influencers using English on Instagram and Twitter. The result of the study showed there were 152 errors found from 100 captions and they were classified into misinformation (46%), misordering (3%), addition (16%), and omission (35%). The errors were also classified into grammatical units. Those errors in grammatical units are subject-verb agreement with a total of 16 errors, singular-plural with 15 errors, tense/verb form with 31 errors, word form with 23 errors, capitalization with 28 errors, apostrophe error with 25 errors, missing comma with six errors, article usage error with three errors, wrong/missing preposition with four errors, and word use error with two errors. The most grammatical error that frequently occurs in the Instagram caption is tense/verb with 23 (22%) occurrences and a total of 17 (30%) occurrences of apostrophe errors on Twitter.

The Use of Politeness Strategies Based on Gender Differences in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Movie: A Socio-Pragmatic Study

Aris Setiawan Muhammad, Ajeng Diannurdianti — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:47:24 +0700

This research focuses on the use of politeness strategies based on gender differences in the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This research aims to (1) determine the types of politeness strategies used by male and female characters in “Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban” movie, (2) discover the differences in politeness strategies used by male and female characters in the movies, and (3) determine the dominant politeness strategies used by male and female characters in the movie. This research used the qualitative method in collecting and analyzing data and the design of the research was a descriptive study. The data source of the research was from the movie of Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban with 20 male and 8 female characters. The data were collected by watching and transcribing the movie. Furthermore, the researcher analyzed with descriptive qualitative technique. The result of analyzing politeness strategies used based on gender differences showed that 239 utterances used politeness strategies, with males at 173 utterances and females at 66 utterances. The results of the study based on the movie are (1) in the usage of politeness strategies males use the bald on-record 85 (49%) of 173 utterances, positive politeness in 39 (23%) of 173 of utterances, negative politeness in 35 (20%) of 173 utterances, and off-record 14 of (8%) of 173. Whilst, females also use all politeness strategies, there consist of bald on-record 29 (44%) of 66 utterances, positive politeness 22 (33%) of 66 utterances, negative politeness 13 (20%) of 66 utterances, and off- record 2 (3%) of 66 utterances. (2) The differences in politeness strategies used by males and females are in the strategies of notice, exaggerate, hedge, and conventionally indirect. (3) Bald on-strategy is the dominant politeness strategy used, whether by females or males. Males use bald on-record in 85 of 173 utterances and males use 29 of 66 utterances.