Sarcasm of News Headlines on National Electronic Mass Media and Its Relevance to Learning Indonesian

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10.2991/assehr.k.220503.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

News Headlines; Electronic Mass Media; Politeness Principles; Sarcasm; News Text

Abstract

This research aims to describe sarcasm on the national electronic mass media through the principles of language politeness, the form of sarcasm, compare the national online news that contains the most sarcasm, and explain the relevance of sarcasm language to Indonesian language learning in the Eight Grade of Junior High School. This research used a qualitative descriptive method as the research method. The object of this research was the sarcasm language contained in the news headlines in the national electronic newspapers. The data in this research consisted of several titles with sarcasm on national electronic mass media. The data were collected by using the listening method with advanced technique namely writing technique. Then, the researcher analyzed the data using extra lingual matching method. The results showed that there were six violations of language politeness principles in the news headlines on national electronic mass media, namely the approbation maxim; the tact maxim; the agreement maxim; the sympathy maxim; the modesty maxim; and the generosity maxim. The most common violation of the language politeness principle was the approbation maxim. As for the sarcasm language in news headlines in the national electronic mass media found two forms of sarcasm, namely dispraise and satire. Dispraise was the most common form of sarcasm. Based on the comparison of the four types of national online news that contained a lot of sarcasm, in the first place was CNN Indonesia.com; Sindonews.com; Tempo.co; and Tribunnews.com. The result of this research was relevant for learning news text in the Eight Grade of Junior High School.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Putri Ayu Tarwiyati
AU  - Harun Joko Prayitno
AU  - Miftakhul Huda
AU  - Laili Etika Rahmawati
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/14
TI  - Sarcasm of News Headlines on National Electronic Mass Media and Its Relevance to Learning Indonesian
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Learning on Advance Education (ICOLAE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 324
EP  - 338
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220503.029
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220503.029
ID  - Tarwiyati2022
ER  -