Compliance and Violations of Decision Principle of Interlocution in Social Media

Abstract

Nowadays there are many speeches in online social media which tend to be motivated by
hatred. Whereas the function of social media is significant to facilitate individuals communication and
is expected to happen politely. For that reason, this study discussed how the language politeness in
social media reviewed from pragmatic perspective in the current online social media user comment
field. This study aims to describe the compliance and violation of language politeness in social media,
especially online one such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, as well as Detik.com. This study was
conducted in descriptive qualitative research method with non-interactive approach. The data were
interlocutions and speeches in the online social media user comment field from Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, and Detik.com. sites which met politeness and irreverence. The data collection techniques
were refer and note techniques. The data were online social media documents analyzed by content
analysis method. By triangulation technique of researcher and data, it resulted comprehensive findings.
Based on the data analysis result, it obtained some findings. First, compliance with language
proficiency in Facebook social media, Twitter, Instagram, and Detik.com were 243 findings shared in
online social media of Facebook as many as 86 findings, Twitter as many as 23 findings, Instagram as
many as 15 findings, and Detik.com as many as 119 findings. Second, the violation of language
politeness in online social media was as many as 228 findings, those were shared in Facebook as many
as 50 findings, Twitter as many as 8 findings, Instagram as many as 14 findings, and Detik.com as
many as 156 findings. Thus, it can be concluded that the most dominant form of compliance and
violation in online social media is sourced from online newspaper with the total of 275 findings. It
means the community is more easily affected by news stories presented in online newspapers than
online social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Thus, it is advised that the society could
wiser benefit online social media and are not easily influenced by news that lead to pros and cons