Impoliteness Realized by Social Media Users in Celebrities’ Instagram

Abstract

This research is aims to investigates impoliteness strategies which are realized by social media users in celebrities’ instagram proposed by Culpeper (1996,2005). It examines how impoliteness strategies are realized on online comments. This research employed descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken on online comments that given by social media users in celebrities’ instagram. The source of data were taken from Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Logan Paul instagram. There are 5 impoliteness strategies proposed by Culpeper (1996,2005). It was just found 4 impoliteness strategies that given by social media users in celebrities’ instagram namely Bald on record impoliteness, Positive impoliteness, Negative impoliteness and Sarcasm or mock politeness. Negative impoliteness was the highest strategies realized by social media users in celebrities’ instagram and the least strategy was bald on record impoliteness and sarcasm or mock politeness. It was found the absence of withhold politeness because withhold politeness tends to keep silent in responding the speaker utterances which is a strategy used not to perform as expected politeness strategies in the comment of celebrities’ instagram, we were not found that social media users show keeps silent in responding the celebrity