Language Attitude in Stand-up Comedy

Abstract

This study deals with language attitude in stand up comedy. The objectives of this research were to identify language attitude and to investigate types of language attitude. The data of this study were taken from utterance of scripts stand up comedy Indonesian. The data were analized by using descriptive-qualitative method with naturalistic design. The findings could be concluded Language attitude was found in the stand up comedy on the theme ―keanehan-keanehan di Indonesia” and “Media Sosial”. Positive and negative attitude was considered based on pronunciation, accent, vocabulary and structure found in theme ―keanehan-keanehan di Indonesia” and “Media Sosial” Positive attitude of theme ―keanehan-keanehan di Indonesia” and “Media Sosial” was identified as gratitude, purpose, delivery, no comparisons, authentic and reflection. And negative attitude was mostly no found in these stand up comedy. Positive attitude was more dominant than negative attitude in theme ―keanehan-keanehan di Indonesia” and “Media Sosial”