A STUDY ON COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY DIGITAL NATIVES IN FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATE WRITING

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A STUDY ON COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY

DIGITAL NATIVES IN FACEBOOK STATUS

UPDATE WRITING

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to

achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

BY:

TRI MELIANA SARI (08360201)

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG

THE FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION

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This thesis was defended in front of examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang

and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

on January 30, 2013

Approved by:

Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang

Dean,

Dr. M.Syaifuddin, MM

Examiners : Signatures :

1. Dra. Thathit Manon. A, M. Hum. 1. ... 2. Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd, M.PEd 2. ...

3. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd 3. ………

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to

do something you have never done.

Success is a journey, not a destination

Dedication:

I dedicate this thesis to:

My beloved father and mother,

My sister and my brother,

My lovely,

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A STUDY ON COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY DIGITAL NATIVES IN FACEBOOK _{STATUS UPDATE WRITING}

ABSTRACT

Colloquial is popular in media only for teenager (youth). For the teenager is more closely and intimate. But, it is difficult to understand for other. The research was based on the fact that the digital native especially the teenagers usually used colloquial words in their daily conversation or writing status update. The objectives of this research were to know the colloquial used by digital native, identify the type, and the most dominant colloquial words.

This study used descriptive qualitative research because tha data was non numerical form and the data were collected in the form of words not in the form of number like in experimental. In addition, documentation that is used to find out and analyze the colloquial words in meaning. The object research of this study was the colloquial words that were written by 15 members of facebook that consisted of the digital natives in Indonesia who age 17-25. 15 members of

facebookwere the writer‟s friends in facebook. The writer did the research start on August 2nd up to August 17th 2012.

The result of this study showed that there were 84 colloquial words. Those are ganteng, cowok, pake’, ak, gak, kencan, akuh, gpp, west, coy, y, q, ne, koq,

pwanas, ney, peyut, cm, pengen, cantik, naek, bareng, gj, mo, tog, nek, males, ngene, iki, pge, gila, entek, duwek, pisan, hasemm, moga, seneng, laperrr, pedes, gmn, tp, cepet, bosen, tiap, liat, seger, n, taun, da, maksih, curhatku, dateng, cakep, u, hp, smw, gakpapagakpapa, dapet, gue, tajir, duit, met, ea, tmen, nunggu, koq, lemot, ge, rame, capek, ampe, honey, laen, banget, m, baca, baeg, q, km, tuk, gede, tak and usah. It can be based on the theory and they can not be on the theory. There are 55 neutral colloquial, 7 literary colloquial, 3 vulgar colloquial, 7 dialectal colloquial and 6 colloquial words that did not belong to the theory found in writing status update facebook in internet www.facebook.com. It shows that neutral colloquial is the most dominant.

Key words: (Digital Natives, Colloquial)

The Advisor I, The Writer,

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Alhamdulillahi rabbil „alamin, the researcher expresses her highest

gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta‟ala for blessing, love, opportunity, health, and mercy to complete this thesis.

Shalawat is also sent to Prophet Muhammad shallallahu „alaihi wa sallam who had delivered the truth to human beings in general and Muslim in particular. In arranging this thesis, a lot of people have provided motivation, advice, support, and even remark that had helped the researcher. In this valuable chance, the researcher aims to express her gratitude and appreciation to all of them.

1. Drs. Soeparto, M. Pd as the first advisor who has helped, given valuable advice, motivation, experience, encouragement helped the researcher all the times of study and analysis of this whole thesis.

2. Drs. Munash F, M. M as the second advisor who has helped her patiently finishes this thesis by giving suggestion, guidance, and correction since the preliminary of manuscript until the completion of this thesis.

3. Dra. Thathit Manon Andini, M. Hum as my academic counselor that always patiently gives support and gives me good advice.

4. Her beloved family, especially her parents, Mr. Sukadi and Mrs. Kasiyatin, thank you so much for their affection, advices, guidance, instruction and help in all her life, their love is beyond any words. For her dearest sister Eni Puji Rahayu and brothers Darmawan Dwi Febriyanto who always give her constant encouragement and tireless motivation.

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5. Her Friend Prita Kusumawati, Pita Yuni Asih, Nurul Maulidah, and Fery Kurniawan, for your sacrifice and motivation. Without all of you the researcher would never have the power to finish this thesis.

6. My fiance Agus Budi Cahyono who always give her constant encouragement and tireless motivation.

7. Her everlasting friends: Desy Nila Sari, Mirza, Mia, Muniah, Sulink, Yessy, Cem-cem and all of friends in D class. Thank you so much for coloring her life, cheerful days, beautiful togetherness and also unforgettable moment for all of her life.

Finally, may Allah always blesses us. Aamiin

Malang, 18th January 2013 The Writer,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title ... i

Approval ... ii

Legalization ... iii

Motto and Dedication ... iv

Abstract ... v

Acknowledgements ... vi

Table of Contents ... vii

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ... 1

1.2 Statement of Problem ... 4

1.3 Purpose of the Study ... 4

1.4 Significance of Study ... 5

1.5 Scope and Limitation ... 5

1.6 Definition of Key Term ... 5

CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Language Variation ... 7

2.1.1 Common Colloquial ... 8

2.1.2 Special Colloquial ... 10

2.2 Digital Native ... 12

2.2.1. The Characteristic of Digital Native ... 13

2.3 Facebook ... 14

2.3.1 Friends ... 16

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2.3.3 News Feed ... 16

2.3.4 Messages and Inbox Photo and Tagging ... 17

2.3.5 Time line ... 17

2.3.6 Cover Photo ... 18

2.3.7 Activity Log ... 18

2.3.8 Basic Info ... 18

2.3.9 Status Update ... 19

CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 20

3.2 Research Object ... 21

3.3 Research Instrument ... 21

3.4 Data Collection ... 21

3.5 Data Analysis ... 22

CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Findings ... 23

4.2 Discussion ... 32

CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 34

5.2 Suggestion ... 35 REFERENCES

Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presented about background of study, problem of study, purpose of study, significance of the study, scope and limitation and definition of key term.

1.1Background of study

In modern era, technology has important roles for 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 facebook, email, yahoo messanger, twitter, BBM and camfrog. All of the social network in internet become our lifestyle, it can not be separated each other, such as facebook.

Facebook is one of the human society. Many people interact to make and join in

facebook. From facebook, we can get so many friends even from the outside our country easily. Because we just add friend or accept the friend invitation. We can know our new friends closely.Besides, facebook is usually used by the teenagers. But sometimes the adult people used it. The teenagers here are the digital natives who are grown-up as students.

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Digital native is person who was born and grew up when the technology were developed.It supported by ( Prensky: 2001) who stated that “they have spent their whole time and lives surrounded by and using computer, videogames, digital music players, cell phone and all the other digital toys and tools”. They were really fast to receive the information. They will always be curious about the recent technology development and they can absorb and learn it easily.

Facebook is usually identically with social status update. Status update is an interesting feature in facebook, which allow users to post message for their friend (Collier, 2012). Many people often update status every time (minutes and hours). We share about our love, experience (good and bad experience), and our promises. We can understand the conditions and the informations about our daily life from our status update. And when we got the problem, we got feedback or suggestion from other friends on facebook. It is like diary for human life. Because we can writes everything on status update.

In writing update status, usually the members of facebook include smileys or emoticons and also colloquial words to make the writing looks interesting, cute, funny and stylish. According to (Trask: 1999) 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 formal context and may use swear-words freedomly and so on, for instanceshe’d’ve, y’know,

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language‟, bahasa remaja „youth language‟, „informal Jakartan Indonesian‟, and

„colloquial Indonesian‟. It means that colloquial is very popular in media, particularly those aimed at the youth, yet until recently, it has been little understood.For the teenager is very closely to other friend.

There are many language varieties found in the internet, one of them is colloquial words used by digital native in facebook status update writing. Colloquial words used in update status usually have shorter form than the standart language. Even some of them are combaining letters and numbers, but we can read them as the proper language. So we do not misunderstand and miscommunication when we had communication.

The first research was conducted by Ramadhani (2007). She analyzed about the colloquial language used by the member of friendster in writing testimonial in internet. There were 61 colloquial words and 9 technical terms. Those terms can be divided into 2. The first is technical terms which support the theory such as clipping, blending, acronym and hypocorism. The second is technical term which is not support the theory such as number as word, number and letter as word, reducing letter and changing spelling.

The second research was conducted by Ramadhanti (2010). The result of this study showed that there were 146 colloquial words founds in Black Eyed Peas song

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lyric from “Monkey Bussiness” album. Most of them the colloquial words found in

the song lyrics were abbreviation. There were some differences among interpreters to interpret the meaning of colloquial words. From 146 words, there were 17 colloquial words which three interpreters had different interpretation. It is due to several factors; the interpreters level of ability the interpreter frequency of English exposure and the availability supporting facilities.

The third research was conducted by Indriawati (2011). The result of this study showed that there were 90 colloquial words. There were 43 colloquial words based on the theory word formation process and 47 colloquial words did not belong to the theory found on English writing update status facebook in internet

www.facebook.com. There were used 8 technical terms based on theory word formation process to form the colloquial words.

Based on the previous writer above, the writer is inspired to investigate the colloquial word used by digital natives in facebook status update writing. It is just focused in colloquial and type of colloquial itself. The writerthough it better to study more and hopefully no misunderstanding or communication again.

1.2Statement of the problem

Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulates the statement of problem as follows:

1. What is the colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing?

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2. What is the type of colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook

status update writing?

3. What are the most dominant colloquial words used by digital natives in

facebook status update writing? 1.3Purpose of the study

The purpose of study is related to the problem of study. The purpose of study is as follows:

1. To know the colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing.

2. To identify the type of colloquial words used by digital natives in

facebook status update writing.

3. To know the most dominant colloquial words used by digital natives in

facebook status update writing. 1.4Significant 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 research about colloquial words.On the other hand, the students will know about variety of language and they will get knowledge more about it.

1.5Scope and limitation

The scope of this study is colloquial. The study is limited only on colloquial used by digital natives that were written by 15 members as the writer‟s friends that is

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found in facebook start on August 2nd up to August 17th 2012. Digital natives especially in Indonesia who age 17-25.

1.6Definition of key term

To avoid any vague ideas about the terms that are used in this study, it is necessary for the writer to define several key terms as follows:

1. Digital native is the generation of young people born since 1980 as

“digital natives” due to what he perceived as an innate confidence in using new technologies such as the internet, video games, mobile telephony and all the other toys and tools of the digital age (Prensky: 2001).

Digital native is person who was born and grew up when the technology were developed.

2. Facebook is a social networking site used by more than 800 million active (Collier: 2012).

The facebook activity is tagging the photo, updating status and writing testimony. A member of facebook can make all his/her communication visible to everyone.

3. Update Status is a feature in facebook, which allow users to post message for their friend (Collier: 2012).

4. 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 formal

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context, and may using swear words with freedom and so on (Trask, 1999: 41).

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Facebook is usually identically with social status update. Status update is an interesting feature in facebook, which allow users to post message for their friend (Collier, 2012). Many people often update status every time (minutes and hours). We share about our love, experience (good and bad experience), and our promises. We can understand the conditions and the informations about our daily life from our status update. And when we got the problem, we got feedback or suggestion from other friends on facebook. It is like diary for human life. Because we can writes everything on status update.

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According to (Djenar: 2006), the colloquial variety of Indonesian that has been referred to by various scholars as bahasa tak baku „non-standard language‟, bahasa informal „informal language‟, bahasa gaul „social language‟, bahasa ABG „teen language‟, bahasa remaja „youth language‟, „informal Jakartan Indonesian‟, and „colloquial Indonesian‟. It means that colloquial is very popular in media, particularly those aimed at the youth, yet until recently, it has been little understood.For the teenager is very closely to other friend.

There are many language varieties found in the internet, one of them is colloquial words used by digital native in facebook status update writing. Colloquial words used in update status usually have shorter form than the standart language. Even some of them are combaining letters and numbers, but we can read them as the proper language. So we do not misunderstand and miscommunication when we had communication.

The first research was conducted by Ramadhani (2007). She analyzed about the colloquial language used by the member of friendster in writing testimonial in internet. There were 61 colloquial words and 9 technical terms. Those terms can be divided into 2. The first is technical terms which support the theory such as clipping, blending, acronym and hypocorism. The second is technical term which is not support the theory such as number as word, number and letter as word, reducing letter and changing spelling.

The second research was conducted by Ramadhanti (2010). The result of this study showed that there were 146 colloquial words founds in Black Eyed Peas song

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lyric from “Monkey Bussiness” album. Most of them the colloquial words found in the song lyrics were abbreviation. There were some differences among interpreters to interpret the meaning of colloquial words. From 146 words, there were 17 colloquial words which three interpreters had different interpretation. It is due to several factors; the interpreters level of ability the interpreter frequency of English exposure and the availability supporting facilities.

www.facebook.com. There were used 8 technical terms based on theory word

formation process to form the colloquial words.

1.2Statement of the problem

Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulates the statement of problem as follows:

1. What is the colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing?

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2. What is the type of colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing?

3. What are the most dominant colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing?

1.3Purpose of the study

The purpose of study is related to the problem of study. The purpose of study is as follows:

1. To know the colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing.

2. To identify the type of colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing.

3. To know the most dominant colloquial words used by digital natives in facebook status update writing.

1.4Significant of the study

1.5Scope and limitation

The scope of this study is colloquial. The study is limited only on colloquial used by digital natives that were written by 15 members as the writer‟s friends that is

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found in facebook start on August 2nd up to August 17th 2012. Digital natives especially in Indonesia who age 17-25.

1.6Definition of key term

To avoid any vague ideas about the terms that are used in this study, it is necessary for the writer to define several key terms as follows:

1. Digital native is the generation of young people born since 1980 as “digital natives” due to what he perceived as an innate confidence in using new technologies such as the internet, video games, mobile telephony and all the other toys and tools of the digital age (Prensky: 2001).

Digital native is person who was born and grew up when the technology were developed.

2. Facebook is a social networking site used by more than 800 million active (Collier: 2012).

The facebook activity is tagging the photo, updating status and writing testimony. A member of facebook can make all his/her communication visible to everyone.

3. Update Status is a feature in facebook, which allow users to post message for their friend (Collier: 2012).

4. 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 formal

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context, and may using swear words with freedom and so on (Trask, 1999: 41).

A STUDY ON COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED BY DIGITAL NATIVES IN FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATE WRITING