COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN TWITTER UPDATE WRITING

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COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN

TWITTER UPDATE WRITING

THESIS

By:

YUFIDA SEPTIANI 201110100311106

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN TWITTER

UPDATE WRITING

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

By:

YUFIDA SEPTIANI 201110100311106

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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ORIGINALITY DECLARATION

The undersigned:

Name : Yufida Septiani

Student ID Number : 201110100311106

Program of Study : English Department

Faculty : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

I declare that the work presented in this thesis was carried out by myself and does not incorporate without acknowledgement any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my knowledge this thesis does not contain any materials previously publish or written by another person except where due reference is made in text.

Malang, 4 May 2016

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

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ﺟ ْﺮ ﻰﱠﺘﺣ ْ ﻰﻓﻮﮭﻓ

Dari annas bin malik berkata : telah bersabda rasulullah SAW : barang siapa

keluar rumah untuk menuntut ilmu maka ia dalam jihad fisabilah hingga kembali

(HR. Bukhari)

“Allah akan meninggikan orang-orang yang beriman dan orang-orang yang diberi

ilmu pengetahuan

(QS. Al-Mujadalah:11)

I dedicated this thesis to:

Allah who always give his full of Rohmah and blessing My beloved parents who always give spirit and as my inspiration

(Father: Muhammad Anwar, Mother: Lutviati) My beloved Brother (Barik Maulana and Muhammad Sultonna) My Advisors Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M.Si and Santi Prastyowati, S.Pd., M.P.d.

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COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN TWITTER UPDATE WRITING

ABSTRACT

This study aimed at analyzing written English colloquial word used by teenagers in Twitter update status writing. This study tried to analyze English colloquial word used by teenagers in their Twitter status update. Colloquial word is a word or phrase that uses contraction, abbreviated utterance, and connecting words and phrase which is usually used in conversation. The objectives of this study are to know the number of colloquial word used by teenagers in Twitter, and identify the types of the colloquial word used by teenagers in Twitter.

The study used descriptive qualitative research design. The instrument used in this study was document such as print screenshot of sentences containing colloquial word, and defined the types of the colloquial words. The object of this study is the English colloquial words used by teenagers in Twitter. The number of the teenagers being researched was ten Twitter users as my followers selectively.

The result of this study showed that there were fifty colloquial words. They were divided into two types, those are: (1) Literary colloquial words, which categorized into three sections. Firstly, phonetic feature there were twenty one colloquial words categorized as phonetic feature. Secondly, morphological feature this study found only one colloquial word categorized as morphological feature. Third, is lexical feature, there were twenty two colloquial words categorized as lexical feature (2) Familiar colloquial words were categorized into three sections; Firstly, phonetic feature there were four colloquial words categorized as phonetic feature in Twitter. Secondly, these findings did not find colloquial words categorized as morphological feature in Twitter. Third, is lexical feature in which there were two colloquial words found in Twitter.

Keyword: (colloquial word, teenagers)

The Advisor I, The Writer,

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In the name of Allah, the most gracious and the most merciful, all praises given to Allah SWT for the uncountable blessing given to the researcher during this study in English Department of University of Muhammadiyah Malang and especially in completing this thesis.

The researcher would like to show her deep gratitude to Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M.Si as first advisor and Santi Prastyowati, S.Pd., M.P.d as the second advisor, for their patience, kindness, and invaluable advice in guiding the researcher until she could finish her thesis.

Furthermore a special gratitude to my beloved parents, Muhammad Anwar and Lutviati that always give the researcher motivation, support, care, and prayer for the finishing of this thesis.

The last, many thanks to the lecturers whose give me advice and my beloved friends who always give their support.

Malang, 4 May 2016

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents a background to the study followed by the purpose and the significance of the study. The research questions are stated and the limitations to the study are presented along with the definitions of terms.

1.1Background of the Study

Language is important for human life. Language has many functions; to

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In modern era, technology plays an important role in the human life. Technology is usually used to find out the newest information, science, knowledge, economic information and etc. It gives some effects to human society, especially internet. Now, many societies use internet to help their difficulties. Internet is a global system of interconnected computer network, by the internet we can interact each other whether we are far from their countries or not. We can use Twitter, Facebook, Email, Yahoo Massagers, BBM and etc. All of the social

network in internet become our lifestyle, it can’t be separated each other, such as

Twitter.

Twitter is a form of free micro-blogging service which allows users to send and receive short public messages called tweets. Tweets are limited to no more than 140 characters, and can include links to blogs, web pages, images, videos and all other material online (O’Reilly and Sarah 2012). Anyone can start tweeting in 10 minutes, anytime, from your computer, smart phone or tablet. By following other people and sources people able to build up an instant, personalized Twitter feed that meets she’s full range of interests, both academic and personal.

Thousands of academics and researchers at all levels of experience and across all disciplines already use Twitter daily, alongside more than 200 million

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In other words, Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service that allows you answer the question, "What are you doing?"by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to friends, or "followers."

According to Trask (1999), colloquial is ordinary, relaxed, informal speech such as using contractions like: I’ve, She’d, h’ve, using connecting words and phrase like: yeah, y’know, using abbreviated utterances like: sounds good, using many words and expressions we would avoid in formal contexts, such as;

“beats me”, instead of “I don’t know”, and “Gotta pee”, instead of “Would you excuse me for a minute?”. Colloquial language is not necessarily “wrong,” but it

is used when a writer is trying to achieve informality.

According to Davies and Eynon (2013), Grounded in what young people actually say about using new technology in their daily lives, teenagers and technology explores the unique relationship young people have with digital media, but also draws parallels to how new technology is used throughout society. Importantly, it also discusses the so-called “digital divide” whereby some teenagers have limited access to new technologies, and the issue that this raises.

Some research findings have been reported by previous researches. Ramadhani (2007), analysed the colloquial word used by the members of

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as words, number and letters as words, reducing letters and changing spelling. On the other hand, to the beginner of English learner, this kind of words may be confusing. It is also proved that colloquial words were used informal speech with relaxed situation. The users of colloquial words were feeling free and arbitrary to create new colloquial words.

The second research was conducted by Meliana (2013), who analyzed the colloquial word used by digital natives in Facebook status update writing. The result of her study showed that there were 55 neutral colloquial words, 7 literary colloquial words, 3 vulgar colloquial, 7 dialectal colloquial and 6 colloquial words that did not belong to the theory found in writing status of update Facebook in www.facebook.com. It means that neutral colloquial is the most dominant word used by digital natives in Facebook status update writing.

Based on the previous researcher’s description above, the researcher is inspired to investigate the colloquial word used by teenagers in Twitter update status writing and because it is very important and interesting to be discus since knowing that in this era technology becomes the priority and become our life style, especially internet such us Twitter. It is just focuses on colloquial and the types of colloquial itself.

1.2Statement of the Problems

1. What are the colloquial words used by teenagers in Twitter update writing?

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1.3Purposes of the Study

1. To describe the colloquial words used by teenager in Twitter update writing.

2. To identify the types of colloquial words used by teenager in Twitter update writing.

1.4Significance of the Study

The result of this research is expected to give contribution to the development of sociolinguistic subject and can give new atmosphere for the researcher about colloquial words.

For the linguistic lecturer, hopefully this result can be used as an example of linguistics analysis especially on colloquial words.

On the other hand, the students will know about variety of language and also expected to be able to identify colloquial words in oral communication and in the form of writing.

1.5 Scope and Limitation

The scope of this study is colloquial, especially the types of colloquial used by teenagers in Twitter update writing. The study is limited only on English writing update status by teenagers that were written by ten followers as the

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1.6Definition of the Key Terms

To avoid misunderstanding in term of contents of the topic in this study, it is necessary for the researcher to define the key terms used in this study:

1. Teenager is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. A teenager is a person between the age group of 13 until 19 years old.

2. Colloquial is ordinary, relaxed, informal speech such as using contractions, using connecting words and phrase, using abbreviated utterances, using many words and expressions. We would avoid in informal context and may use swear-words freedom. (Trask, 1999)

3. Twitter is an online platform which allows users to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connection and those made by others within the system. (Weller, 2014) 4. Tweeting is a post or composes update typed in “What’s happening?”

COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN TWITTER UPDATE WRITING

COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN

TWITTER UPDATE WRITING

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY TEENAGERS IN TWITTER

UPDATE WRITING

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

ORIGINALITY DECLARATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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