Abstract:
This study discusses the analysis of abusive language on Gus Miftah's Instagram
account that is concerned on investigating the type of abusive language in netizen
communication on Gus Miftah Instagram account. The objective of this study is to
determine the types of abusive language and explain the process of abusive
language used in the comment column of Gus Miftah's Instagram account. This
study uses a descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data was obtained
from comments of netizen and it was collected by looking at the Instagram
comments and taking a note, and the data were analyzed by some steps they were
data reduction, data display, drawing and verifying conclusion. There were 100
abusive languages were found in this study. The data was analyzed by identifying
comments into 10 types of abusive language, classifying utterances into each type
of abusive language. There were 9 types of abusive language were found in the
comment column of Gus Miftah's Instagram account, namely Animals Name, Part
of body, Profession, Activity, Adjective, Supernatural Creature, Noun, Kinship, and
Foreign Language. The researcher found the process of abusive language on Gus
Miftah's Instagram Account. The finding showed there were 100 Abusive languages
which consist of 14 animals name, 16 parts of body, 11 profession, 14 activity, 22
adjective, 5 supernatural creature, 11 noun, 4 kinship, 3 foreign language and 0
food.
