TEENAGER'S IMPOLITENESS IN THE DIGITAL ERA AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL MEDIA

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impoliteness strategies used by teenagers on social media and to explore the reasons of using language impoliteness by teenagers on social media. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method to explore impoliteness phenomena by teenagers on social media and The data is taken from several popular social media in the world, like Instagram, tiktok, and twitter. The result of this thesis prove that there were 5 types of impoliteness strategies proposed by Culpeper (1996). Of the 50 samples taken, it was found 4 impoliteness strategies used by teenagers on social media comments, namely Bald on Record Impoliteness (8), Positive Impoliteness (16), Negative Impoliteness (15), and Sarcasm or Mock Impoliteness (11) and Withold Politeness (0). Positive Impoliteness was the high percentage strategies used by teenagers on social media comments and the lowest strategy was Bald On record Impoliteness. The function for using impoliteness strategies by teenagers on social media were affective impoliteness (17), coercive impoliteness (4), and entertaining impoliteness (5). The reasons for using language impoliteness by teenagers on social media were to vent negative feelings or anger and dislike, increase his power with patterns of abusive language, and to entertain the viewers. The new reasons were found namely hatred and impartiality.