Abstract:
The study deal with the language attitudes towards written alay variation in twitter.
The objectives of the study were to find out types of language attitude towards the
alay variation, to find out the meaning of alay variation are used by users and to
find out the reason why the attitudes coded in twitter. This research was carried
out by using descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected from social
media. There were 62 status were taken to be analyzed, the technique used to
analyze the data obtained was by identifying the attitudes, tabulating the language
attitude into their types and classifying the meanings of alay variation. There were
62 alay variation words used in twitter. The findings of the data analysis showed
that two types of language attitudes namely positive attitudes and negative
attitudes were found in the twitter. The findings showed that the meaning of alay
variation are used by users in twitter has its own meaning because many word
formation which modify the spellings and writing. Attitudes are coded by users in
twitter because they favour the use of alay variation to be an identity marker,
users attitudes belong to positive attitudes. Users of alay variation have the loyalty
in using the variation continuously and believe that the variation has prestige that.
