COMPLIMENT RESPONSE STRATEGY USED ON SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MALE & FEMALE GENDER

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.