Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)

Contrastive Analysis of Profanity Expressions in Japanese and Indonesian Languages on Twitter

Authors
Anisya Yulinda Sari1, *, Nuria Haristiani1
1Japanese Language Education Department, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: nisyays@upi.edu
Corresponding Author
Anisya Yulinda Sari
Available Online 26 February 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Contrastive analysis; Indonesian language; Japanese language; profanity expressions
Abstract

This study compares the use of profanity expressions in Japanese and Indonesian languages on the Twitter social media platform by examining profanity expression forms based on six categories, namely genital terms, excretory terms, animal terms, anatomical terms, imbecilic terms, and general terms, as well as eight reference categories for profanity expressions, namely situations, animals, supernatural beings, objects, body parts, kinship, activities, and professions. Using a descriptive contrastive method combined with a qualitative approach as the research design, this study analyzed two Twitter accounts containing profane expressions, namely the @Hanadayo0903 account (Japanese) held by Hana Kimura and the @JeromePolin account (Indonesian) owned by Jerome Polin. Hughes (1991) and Wijana and Rohmadi’s (2006) ideas on the types and allusions of profane expressions are used in this study. Hana Kimura’s account discovered five reference categories for profanity terms, activity references, animals, circumstances, occupations, and things. However, the Jerome Polin report discovered three profanity phrases, namely mental disability, animals, and general. These findings suggest that profanity expressions in Japanese revolve around activity references, such as imperative words for “death”. In contrast, profanity expressions in Indonesian tend to focus on mental disabilities, such as “stupid”.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 February 2024
ISBN
978-94-6463-376-4
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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