Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

Cyberpragmatic Analysis of Indonesian Opposition Politicians’ Tweets

Authors
Vidi Sukmayadi, Karim Suryadi, M. Fasha Rouf
Corresponding Author
Vidi Sukmayadi
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.263How to use a DOI?
Keywords
communication; cyberpragmatics; internet-mediated communication; pragmatics; social media
Abstract

The study attempts to describe how opposition politicians construct their transmission of meaning by utilizing cyber-based communication features, particularly in a social media platform. A corpus of 30 Twitter postings (tweets) is qualitatively analyzed within a cyber-pragmatic framework. In analyzing the data, the authors focused on the textual-visual explicature and implicature. In other words, interpreting the politician tweets entails a comprehensive analysis of the processing of the text, visual images, and the identification of possible connotative meanings. The data were collected during the 18th Asian Games 2018 in Indonesia. An underlying assumption for choosing the timeframe is that a multinational sporting event should be neutral and unifying in nature. Thus, it is interesting for the authors to study how the Indonesian oppositions compensate their responses through Internet-mediated communication.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.263How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, 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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