EXPLORING THE LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF INDONESIAN CELEBRITIES’ CAPTION ON INSTAGRAM POSTS

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the way of Indonesian celebrities from different age categories in using online linguistic features and language styles in their Instagram captions. This present research is qualitative research considering that the purpose of this research is to build contextual and rounded understanding of social phenomena which happened around us. The data is taken from Indonesian celebrities’ posts which are written in English. Then, the data is in form of celebrities’ captions. In the process of collecting the data, the researcher starts with choosing several celebrities’ accounts based on their age classifications. In the stage of analyzing the data, the researcher firstly observes then analyzes them according to online linguistic features. Age categories in this study consist of teenagers, younger adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. The result of this present study found that teenagers tend to use fewer online linguistic features such as abbreviation or acronymy, punctuation, and emoticonymy in their Instagram captions.