Investigating the Meaning of Jargon on Social Media Twitter

Abstract

This research aimed at identifying the meanings of the jargon, and describing the functions of the jargon employed on social media Twitter. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from the sreenshoot of the jargon used on the Twitter by using smartphone as a tool for surfing on social media Twitter. The researcher took the jargon of 30 accounts. The result of this research based on the categorize of meaning, was mostly applied denotative meaning with 26 jargon items (87%). This implied that the literal meaning were more understandable, and connotative meaning was 4 jagon items (13%). Based on the functions of jargon, most jargons were to provide speakers of a subgroup with a means of marking ingroup membership and excluding outsiders with 26 jargon items (87%), and based on the function of jargon were to provide speakers of specialized domains with clear, unambiguous terms to refer to their activities was 4 jargon items (13%). This implied that the jargons on social media Twitter were used to provide special terms as a mark that they belonged to one of the social media Twitter users