Sarcasm in Social Media: A Study of Comments on Sam Smith's Instagram Posts
https://doi.org/10.30605/onoma.v10i1.3077
Keywords:
Sarcasm, types of sarcasm, purpose of sarcasm, Sam Smith Instagram accountAbstract
This study aims to explain the types of sarcasm expressions and determine the purpose of sarcsm used by netizens in Sam Smith's Instagram comment column. Descriptive qualitative was used in this research. The objects of the research were sarcasm in netizen comments on Sam Smith's Instagram posts and their intended meaning. Documentation was employed to collect the research data and content analysis was employed to observe the sarcasm. The findings revealed that four types of sarcasm were used by netizens to comment Sam Smith's Instagram posts, including propositional, lexical, like - prefix, and illocutionary sarcasm. The study found five purposes of sarcasm: sophistication, evaluation, politeness, persuassive communication, and retraction.
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Creswell, J. W. (1994). Research design: Qualitative & quantitative approaches. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications.
Cross, Michael. (2013). Social Media Security, 1st Edition: Leveraging Social Networking While Mitigating Risk. Syngress
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Fox, W., & Bayat, M. S. (2007). A Guide to Managing Research. Cape Town City: Juta Publications. https://research-methodology.net/descriptive-research/#_ftn2
Gay, L.R., Mills, GE., & Airasian, P. (2006). Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Kreuz, J. K. & Glucksberg, S. (1989). How to be sarcastic: The echoic reminder theory of verbal irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118, 374-386.
Lambert, V. A., & Lambert, C. E. (2012). Qualitative Descriptive Research: An Acceptable Design. Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research, 16, 255-256.
Lestari, J. P, & Juita, N. (2022). Types of Sarcasm in the Comment Column of Male Netizen on the Youtube Account of Sukmawati Soekarno Putri News Video. Sumatra Barat: Universitas Negeri Padang
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Muhaddisi, A, Prastowo, B.N, & Putri, D.U.K. (2021). Sentiment Analysis with Sarcasm Detection On Politician’s Instagram. IJCCS (Indonesian Journal of Computing and Cybernetics Systems), 15, 4, 349 - 358.
Padmatantri, P, & Sutrisno, A. (2019). Responses to Sarcasm in Three Star Trek Movies. Journal of Lexicon, 6, 1, 11-20.
Puji Lestari, J.P & Juita, N. (2022). Types of Sarcasm in the Comment Column of Male Netizen on the Youtube Account of Sukmawati Soekarno Putri News Video. Sumatra Barat: Universitas Negeri Padang.
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Sitanggang, E.M, Ningsih, T.W. (2022). Sarcasm Used By Netizens On Twitter Case of Election Bidden – Trump Era. ISLLAC: Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture, 6, 01.
Sukarto, K.A & Fauziah, F. (2022). Satire and Sarcasm on the “You Tube Got Talent" Video: A Case Study on Skinnyindonesian24 Channel. ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 5, 2. https://doi.org/10.34050/elsjish.v5i2.21725
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Published
2024-01-02
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Fadilah, I., & Agus Wijayanto. (2024). Sarcasm in Social Media: A Study of Comments on Sam Smith’s Instagram Posts. Jurnal Onoma: Pendidikan, Bahasa, Dan Sastra, 10(1), 92–104. https://doi.org/10.30605/onoma.v10i1.3077
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