Analysis of Sarcasm Comments on You Tube in Presidential Election Era

Abstract

This study deals with Analysis of Sarcasm Comments on You Tube in Presidential Election Era. The aims of this research were to find out and explain about the types of sarcasm based on Elizabeth Camp’s theory, there were propositional, lexical, like-prefixed and illocutionary sarcasm. In this research used qualitative methods. There were 30 sarcasm comments took from four You Tube Channels. For collecting the data, all comments were taken by searching through the international network services in You tube Channel such as Jurnal Radio contributed 10 sarcasm comments, CNN Indonesia gave 9 sarcasm comments, metrotvnews was 5 sarcasm comments and 6 sarcasm comments taken from Indonesia Lawyers Club You Tube channel. The steps of collecting the data were searching the comments, selecting the sarcasm comments, classified and collecting 30 sarcasm comments. This research was suggested for the future researchers who want to conduct the research about sarcasm. Moreover, the students of English Department were recommended to read this research to comprehend and improve the knowledge about figure of speech especially sarcasm. After analyzing the data, there were 4 propositional, 16 lexical, 5 likeprefixed and 5 illocutionary sarcasms were found