Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Indonesian Politicians’ Instagram Captions

Abstract

This study aims to investigate interpersonal meaning of Instagram caption produced by Indonesian politicians. Instagram is a social networking site media which enables the users to upload photos and videos where they could write a caption under their post. Instagram caption becomes language that express the users' emotions, showcase their feelings and is utilized to engage the users for many purposes including political interest.As Indonesia 2019 general election is coming near, this study then seeks to find interpersonal meaning of Instagram caption that Indonesian politicians might have used for this purpose. The subject of this study is 4 Indonesian politicians who weredeclared as the Indonesia presidential and vice presidential candidates of the 2019 General Election. The data used are 20 captions of Instagram derived from their Instagram accounts. This study employed Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) analysis proposed by Halliday in which focusing on how language produces a meaning.The result indicates the followings: first, Indonesian politicians prefer to use short sentences and simple grammar; second, from transitivity analysis, subjects that have meaning as actor is dominantly utilized; third, through the analysis of modality, Indonesian politicians notably apply positive modal verbs and first person pronouns; fourth, declarative statement of speech function is prevalent to give information to the followers (reader). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 49. Terimakasih sudah mendampingiku di kala susah maupun senang. Aku doakan kamu semakin awet muda, selalu diberi kesehatan, umu rpanjang, dan selalu berada dalam perlindungan Allah Subhanahu waTa'ala.•Music: Dewa 19 -Cintakan Membawamu Kembali Translation: Happy 49 th birthday to my wife, @nurasiauno. Thank you for being with me when it's hard or happy. I wish you more youthful, always given health, long life, and always be in the protection of Allah SubhanahuwaTa'ala. Caption: Pak Noning, guru saya di SMU Pangudi Luhur. Bisa dibilang, berkat beliau saya bisa menjadi seperti sekarang ini. Beliau tidak mengharapka nbalasan apa-apa, beliau hanya ingin saya bisa menjadi orang yang bermanfaat untuk orang banyak khususnya rakyat Indonesia. Inilah mengapa ada istilah guru merupakan pahlawan tanpa tanda jasa. Selamat Hari Guru. #hariguru Translation: Mr. Noning is my teacher at PangudiLuhur High School. You could say, thanks to him I can be what I am today. He did not expect anything in return, he just wanted me to be able to be a person who is beneficial to the people, especially the people of Indonesia. This is why the term teacher is an unsung hero. Happy teacher's Day. #teachers Day Caption: Selamatpagi, Wonosobo! Translation: Good morning, Wonosobo! Caption: Sebuah kehormatan bagi saya diundang ke-5 kalinya sebagai pembicara di Indonesia Economic Forum (IEF). Sebuah forum yang dihadiri oleh tokoh-tokoh penting dari pemerintahan dan dunia usaha.

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