Kekerasan Verbal dalam Merespons Status dan Komentar Politik di Media Sosial dan Implikasinya terhadap Kesantunan Berbahasa

Abstract

This paper is entitled "Verbal Violence in Responding to Status and Political Comments on Social Media and Its Implications to Language Politeness". This study examines patterns of verbal violence displayed by supporters of candidate pairs in responding to political discourse on the 2019 presidential election. The focus of the study is about mass communication which shows the existence of verbal violence and its implications for language politeness. This research uses a descriptive method. The data analyzed in this research are comments, status, and tweets as response from netizens who support presidential candidate pairs in the 2019 presidential election. Data is taken from several social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Line, and Whatsapp. Determination of the research object is done with purposive considerations. The results showed that (1) on various occasions on social media, supporters of each pair of candidates dominantly use expressive speech acts; (2) supporters of candidate pairs often violate the principles of politeness, namely violating the maxims of wisdom, generosity, praise, humility, agreement, and sympathy; (3) the existence of verbal violence is caused by messages conveyed through social media which tend to be free, without having to go through the gate keeper process.

Keywords

• verbal violence
• social media
• presidential election
• language politeness