The Analysis of Form and Meaning of Written Language in Social Media

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10.2991/assehr.k.200804.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

form, meaning, social media

Abstract

The objective of this research was to examine the form and meaning of written language used in social media as a means to communicate between users of social media. It was a qualitative research with descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected through observation and document study. The data analysis and interpretation indicates that there are five forms of discourse used by the Facebookers they are descriptive form, narrative form, exposition form, argumentative form, and persuasive form. There are also six styles of meaning they are denotative, connotative, idiom, synonym, antonym, and ambiguity. The finding indicated that the user of Facebook tended to use those form and meaning of written language to express their feeling.

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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  - Suranto
AU  - Septa Aryanika
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/05
TI  - The Analysis of Form and Meaning of Written Language in Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, and Arts Education (ICLLAE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 212
EP  - 216
SN  - 2352-5398
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