Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform

This research aims to understand about the different usages of figurative language, the dictions on the Instagram platform and how both of those terms are used. However, the object of this research are two selected accounts that fit to this research, those are @moodcewekk and @test-psikologi. This r...

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Main Author: Nur Alfiana Isnaini
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Language:English
Published: Universitas Andalas 2023-05-01
Series:Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature
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Online Access:http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/335
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description This research aims to understand about the different usages of figurative language, the dictions on the Instagram platform and how both of those terms are used. However, the object of this research are two selected accounts that fit to this research, those are @moodcewekk and @test-psikologi. This research also applied the descriptive-qualitative research, because the data has been analyzed by describing the results and its forms are written text. Besides, the theory that used in this research is the sociolinguistic theory. Meanwhile, the way the researcher collected the data is through capturing the captions (screen shoot). Then, for data analysis, the writer used the annotating and heeding method to get differences of the data. Therefore, after doing the analysis towards the data, the researcher found the results of this research are personification which has two kinds, both of them are using complete sentences and other used subject and predicate only. For hyperbole, it has several usages, such as the prohibition, the declarative or statements, and the advices. Then, for metaphor, it contains of direct and indirect sentence. Besides, for Hypernym-Hyponym, @moodcewekk is less using the dictions than @test-psikologi. Finally, the polysemy can be categorized as noun, verbs and adjective.
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spelling doaj.art-e7148f828aa44198935a9d8e95efa20f2024-03-27T01:58:27ZengUniversitas AndalasVivid: Journal of Language and Literature2502-146X2023-05-01121546210.25077/vj.12.1.54-62.2023211Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram PlatformNur Alfiana Isnaini0Islamic State University Maulana Malik IbrahimThis research aims to understand about the different usages of figurative language, the dictions on the Instagram platform and how both of those terms are used. However, the object of this research are two selected accounts that fit to this research, those are @moodcewekk and @test-psikologi. This research also applied the descriptive-qualitative research, because the data has been analyzed by describing the results and its forms are written text. Besides, the theory that used in this research is the sociolinguistic theory. Meanwhile, the way the researcher collected the data is through capturing the captions (screen shoot). Then, for data analysis, the writer used the annotating and heeding method to get differences of the data. Therefore, after doing the analysis towards the data, the researcher found the results of this research are personification which has two kinds, both of them are using complete sentences and other used subject and predicate only. For hyperbole, it has several usages, such as the prohibition, the declarative or statements, and the advices. Then, for metaphor, it contains of direct and indirect sentence. Besides, for Hypernym-Hyponym, @moodcewekk is less using the dictions than @test-psikologi. Finally, the polysemy can be categorized as noun, verbs and adjective.http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/335figurative language, dictions, instagram, caption
spellingShingle Nur Alfiana Isnaini
Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature
figurative language, dictions, instagram, caption
title Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
title_full Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
title_fullStr Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
title_full_unstemmed Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
title_short Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
title_sort investigating figurative language usages and the dictions on the instagram platform
topic figurative language, dictions, instagram, caption
url http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/335
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