Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to analyze the Compliment Response Strategy used
on Social Media Interaction: A Comparison Between Male & Female Gender,
To find out the kinds strategies used by male and female gender responding the
compliment on social media instagram.This study was concerned with
linguistic phenomenon by using qualitative methods. There are 80 compliment
responses taken from 10 male instagrams and 10 female instagrams as research
data to be analyze. In analyzing the data, the researcher adopted the theory of
Miles and Huberman (2014), namely data condensation, data presentation,
conclusion drawing and verification. Based on data analysis, it was found that
the eight response strategies proposed by Smith (2009) were not totally
implemented by males & females in responding to praise on Instagram. Only
six strategies were found (Acknowledgement, explain, downgrade, return of
compliment, insult of compliment, and topic change). Dissimilar to the female
gender there were seven compliment responses strategies found in female
Instagram account for replying the compliment statements in their social media
comment section. The highest frequency of the Compliment strategy
Acknowledgment strategy for males was 15 frequencies (39.47%), and 15
frequencies (35.71%). Meanwhile, the Upgrade/Agreement, Questioning
Compliment strategy was not found in the praise response in male data, in
female, data there was no Insult of Compliment strategy. Following the theory
in the type of compliment response, it was found that there were differences
between males and females in responding to compliments on social media. So,
it was concluded that the Male and Female used different sentences to respond
to sentences of compliment given by their followers on Instagram social media.
