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
