Language Usage in the Comments Section of Sexual Harassment News

Sheira Ayu Indrayani, Aceng Ruhendi Saifullah, Dadang Sudana

2019

Abstract

Language usage flexibility is a common thing shown in the comment sections on various online media. This phenomenon emerges in the politeness of language usage in readers’ responses. By using the Appraisal System and CMDA (Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis), this study aims at describing the meaning of chosen words by readers and revealing communication context in readers’ responses to the Baiq Nuril case on Detik.com. The research data was from the top half of the readers’ which had the highest level of popularity in the comments section. In addition, the data were taken from three popular news texts of Baiq Nuril case; the popularity is based on the highest number of readers’ responses. As a result, this research found two things. First, the commenters used words that tend to judge and have a negative meaning. Second, the communication context in readers’ responses toward sexual harassment news tend to intimidating, humiliating, and confrontational either the news’ content or among the readers' responses. These results show that a controversial theme of a news text may lead to many negative responses.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Indrayani S., Saifullah A. and Sudana D. (2019). Language Usage in the Comments Section of Sexual Harassment News.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS, ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, pages 439-446. DOI: 10.5220/0009001004390446

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icels19,
author={Sheira Ayu Indrayani and Aceng Ruhendi Saifullah and Dadang Sudana},
title={Language Usage in the Comments Section of Sexual Harassment News},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,},
year={2019},
pages={439-446},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009001004390446},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,
TI - Language Usage in the Comments Section of Sexual Harassment News
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Indrayani S.
AU - Saifullah A.
AU - Sudana D.
PY - 2019
SP - 439
EP - 446
DO - 10.5220/0009001004390446