Sarcasm and Cynicism in Political Discourse on the 2017 DKI Jakarta Regional Election on Social Media

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10.2991/assehr.k.201109.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

political discourse, sarcasm, cynicism, social media

Abstract

The tight political competition in the 2017 DKI Jakarta Election left a negative impact in terms of language use, especially ones in social media. With the basis of Semantic-Pragmatic theory and the use of descriptive-qualitative data analysis method, it was discovered the fact that in term of discussing Jakarta Election 2017, people predominantly used sarcasm and cynicism style. When sarcasm is a satire style for saying bitter and harsh words and cynicism is a style of language containing doubt and ridicule; then the two were used in to satirize, ridicule, mock, and even put down a person/party in target. The use of sarcasm and cynicism style as a impolite language actually reflects the culture of linguistic poverty, it, then, has the potential to obscure the function of social media as a provider of information and facts that should educate.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Afifah Utami Firmansyah
AU  - Agustina
AU  - Tressyalina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/10
TI  - Sarcasm and Cynicism in Political Discourse on the 2017 DKI Jakarta Regional Election on Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201109.001
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201109.001
ID  - Firmansyah2020
ER  -