Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Indonesian Politicians’ Instagram Captions

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200220.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

discourse analysis, interpersonal meaning, SFG analysis, Instagram, caption, Indonesian politicians

Abstract

This study aims to investigate interpersonal meaning of Instagram caption produced by Indonesian politicians. Instagram is a social networking site media which enables the users to upload photos and videos where they could write a caption under their post. Instagram caption becomes language that express the users’ emotions, showcase their feelings and is utilized to engage the users for many purposes including political interest.As Indonesia 2019 general election is coming near, this study then seeks to find interpersonal meaning of Instagram caption that Indonesian politicians might have used for this purpose. The subject of this study is 4 Indonesian politicians who weredeclared as the Indonesia presidential and vice presidential candidates of the 2019 General Election. The data used are 20 captions of Instagram derived from their Instagram accounts. This study employed Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) analysis proposed by Halliday in which focusing on how language produces a meaning.The result indicates the followings: first, Indonesian politicians prefer to use short sentences and simple grammar; second, from transitivity analysis, subjects that have meaning as actor is dominantly utilized; third, through the analysis of modality, Indonesian politicians notably apply positive modal verbs and first person pronouns; fourth, declarative statement of speech function is prevalent to give information to the followers (reader).

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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  - Dwi Ratnasari
AU  - Maya Defianty
AU  - Didin Nuruddin Hidayat
AU  - Alek
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/25
TI  - Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Indonesian Politicians’ Instagram Captions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 222
EP  - 230
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200220.041
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200220.041
ID  - Ratnasari2020
ER  -