Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019)

Language Problem and Language Idealism on Social Media

Authors
Akmaluddin, Fathul Maujud
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Akmaluddin
Available Online 25 February 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200220.028How to use a DOI?
Keywords
language problems, language idealism, social media
Abstract

This article discusses the problem of language on social media as a development of communication media. The problem of language on social media is massive with various forms, for example, it raises a phenomenon that we are familiar with hate speech and hoax. The use of language in social media experiences pragmatic deviations that can be seen from the many uses of speech or the style of sarcasm. This study belongs to a descriptive qualitative because it aims to describe the data in as much detail as possible from the natural setting. Judging from the nature of the case, including the embedded single case study group (embedded case study). The focus of his research is the pragmatic distortion of the use of language in social media. The data source of this research is a document in the form of writing uploaded on social media such as blogs, Facebook, twitter, and other online sites. The result of this research show that language in social media is prone to cause language problems such as: hate speech, hoaxes, racist speech, and sarcastic which results in a loss of ethics in communication. To avoid the negative effects of language on social media that tends to be free, every communicator needs to pay attention to language idealism, namely: setting and scene, participant, end, act, key, instrumentalities, norms, genre abbreviated as speaking

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
25 February 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.200220.028
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200220.028How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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