Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Indonesian Politicians’ Instagram Captions
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200220.041How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- discourse analysis, interpersonal meaning, SFG analysis, Instagram, caption, Indonesian politicians
- Abstract
This study aims to investigate interpersonal meaning of Instagram caption produced by Indonesian politicians. Instagram is a social networking site media which enables the users to upload photos and videos where they could write a caption under their post. Instagram caption becomes language that express the users’ emotions, showcase their feelings and is utilized to engage the users for many purposes including political interest.As Indonesia 2019 general election is coming near, this study then seeks to find interpersonal meaning of Instagram caption that Indonesian politicians might have used for this purpose. The subject of this study is 4 Indonesian politicians who weredeclared as the Indonesia presidential and vice presidential candidates of the 2019 General Election. The data used are 20 captions of Instagram derived from their Instagram accounts. This study employed Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) analysis proposed by Halliday in which focusing on how language produces a meaning.The result indicates the followings: first, Indonesian politicians prefer to use short sentences and simple grammar; second, from transitivity analysis, subjects that have meaning as actor is dominantly utilized; third, through the analysis of modality, Indonesian politicians notably apply positive modal verbs and first person pronouns; fourth, declarative statement of speech function is prevalent to give information to the followers (reader).
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- © 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dwi Ratnasari AU - Maya Defianty AU - Didin Nuruddin Hidayat AU - Alek PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/25 TI - Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Indonesian Politicians’ Instagram Captions BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 222 EP - 230 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200220.041 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200220.041 ID - Ratnasari2020 ER -