SOLIDARITY-BASED CONTENT SHARING ON SOCIAL MEDIA: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE STYLE AMONG MILLENNIAL SOCIAL PLATFORM USERS”

Abstract

This research reveals language phenomena of millennials in social media through analysis the language style, language function and solidarity expressions.This study utilized descriptive qualitative to analyze the data. The data which employed in this study is the respondents who aged about 23 – 43 years old and considered to be called as millennials. Data was collected by using open-ended questionnaire where the respondents who are eligible as millennials are collected about 30 data. The result of this research found many expressions to share the solidarity, various language style and functions of language which millennials employed to the content. Based on analysis, the researcher found four types from seven types of language style which are 6 formal style, 14 informal style, 5 slang style, and 5 colloquial style. Then, there are five language function are found after analyzing the data which are 2 regulatory function, 6 representational function, 14 personal function, 2 heuristic function and 6 imaginative function. The research concluded that in expressing solidarity there are various types of language style and language function which are utilized in represent solidarity to the content of Abby Choi’s murdered.