COMPARISON BETWEEN LEBAY WORDS FOUND IN TWITTER AND FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATE

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COMPARISON BETWEEN LEBAY WORDS FOUND IN TWITTER AND FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATE

THESIS

By:

MITA RIYANG PANGESTU 201010100311288

ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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COMPARISON BETWEEN

LEBAY

WORDS FOUND IN

TWITTER

AND

FACEBOOK

STATUS UPDATE

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements

to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

By:

MITA RIYANG PANGESTU

201010100311288

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the 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 February 4th, 2015.

Approved by:

Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

MOTTO

“Sesungguhnya Allah t idak merubah keadaan suat u kaum sehingga mereka mengubah keadaan yang ada pada diri mereka sendir i” (Surat

Al- ra’d: 11).

If we are doing something, we must try and pray. If we only try without pray, it be foolish.

Because A llah always gives the succes to the people with effort and pray

D ED I CAT I ON :

I d ed I c a t e t h I s t h esI s t o : M y bel o v ed f a t h er a n d M o t h er ,

m y h u sba n d a n d m y a u n t , a n d

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Alhamdulillah hirobbil ‘alamin, her grateful prays are praised to Allah SWT, The Almighty and The Merciful, for his gift to the researcher in finishing the thesis.

The researcher would like to express her deep gratitude to Dr. Sudiran, M. Hum. as the first advisor and Drs. Soeparto, M. Pd. as the second advisor, for their patience, willingness, and invaluable for help to guide as well as suggestion for the completion of this thesis.

Furthermore, a special gratitude to her parent, Bp. Sonodo and Ibu Purminanik for their encouragement, love, prayer and care during the completion of her study. Then, to her husband (Mas Deni Kristanto) who gives her many supports and spirits.

Her thanks also goes to her aunt (ibu Ida prantiningsih, S.Pd) and her close friend (Kiki, Qonik, Rere, Ika, Lilik, Cicik, Ms. Rafika, Lyna, Maynda) who always give theirs supports.

Malang, February 4th, 2015 The Researcher,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE ... i

APPROVAL ... ii

LEGALIZATION ... iii

MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... iv

ORIGINALITY DECLARATION... v

ABSTRACT ... vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... viii

APPENDIX ... x

CHAPTER II NTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ... 1

1.2 Statement of Problem ... 3

1.3 Purpose of Study ... 4

1.4 Significance of Study ... 4

1.5 Scope and Limitation ... 5

1.6 Definition of Key Terms ... 6

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Twitter... 7

2.1.1 Twitter Community... .. 8

2.1.2 Tweet Types... 9

2.1.3 Twitter Status... 10

2.2 Facebook... 11

2.2.1 Home ... 12

2.2.2 Profile ... 13

2.2.3 News Feed ... 14

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2.2.5 Timeline ... 17

2.2.6 Friends... 17

2.3 LEBAY ... 18

2.4 Hyperbolic Form ... 19

2.5 The Similarities and Differences of Lebay Words in Twitter and Facebook ... 24

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 25

3.2 Research Objective ... 26

3.3 Research Istrument ... 27

3.3.1 Observation ... 27

3.3.2 Document Analysis ... 27

3.4 Procedures of Data Collection ... 28

3.5 Data Analysis ... 28

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 1.1 Findings ... 31

1.1.1 The Similarities of Lebay Words in Twitter and Facebook ... 31

1.1.2 The Differences of Lebay Words in Twitter and Facebook ... 32

4.2 Discussion ... 34

CHAPTER VCONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 3.4 Conclusion ... 39

3.5 Suggestions... 40

REFERENCES APPENDIX

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APPENDIX I DOCUMENT ANALYSIS OF TWITTER AND FACEBOOK APPENDIX II LEBAY WORDS FOUND IN TWITTER AND FACEBOOK APPENDIX III THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF LEBAY WORDS APPENDIX IV LEBAY WORDS DIDN’T INCLUDE IN HYPERBOLIC FORM

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Ambarsari, Shinta. 2013.An Analysis of Figurative Language and Message on The Song “Heal The World” Sung by Michael Jackson. Unpublished thesis. Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang.

Anne, C and Lary, M. 2012. A Parents’ Guide to Facebook. Connect safely. Org and iKeepsafe Coalition.

Ary, Donald., Jacobs, Cheser Lucy., Sorensen, Chris & Razavieh, asghar. 2010. Introduction to Research in education 8th edition. Wadsworth Cencage Learning.

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Brown, H. Douglas. 2000. Principle of Language learning and Teaching fourth edition. San Fransisco State University.

Callender, Nichola., Williams, Nahmad Lindy. 2010. Communication, Language and Literacy. Great Britain: MPG Group Books.

Claridge, Claudia.2011. Hyperbole in English. Cambridge University press.

Cohen, Louis., Manion, Lawrence., Morrison, Keith. 2007. Research Methods in Education6th edition. Routledge. USA, Canada, New York.

Collier, Anne and Lary, Magid. 2012. A Parents’ Guide to Facebook. Connect safely.org and iKeepsafe Coalition. Retrieved on March, 10th 2014 at 13:40 Croft, Charlene. 2007. Brief Story of the Facebook. (online). (charlene on files

wordpress.com/). Retrieved on July, 11th 2014 at 13:00

Fraenkel, Jack R., Norman, E. Wallen. 2009. How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education. McGraw-hill: New York.

Haryanti. 2013. An Analysis of The Lebay Words in Status Updates of Facebookers. Unpublished Thesis. Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang.

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Janssen, Cory. 2014. Facebook Status.(online).

(http://www.technopedia.com/definition/). Retrieved on July, 8th 2014 at 08:00.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

In this chapter, the researcher presents some topics dealing with introduction. These topics are the background of study, statement of problem, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms.

1.1Background of study

Everyday people use language to communicate each other. “Language is a system of arbitrary conventionalized vocal, written, or gestural that enable members of a given community to communicate intelligibly with one another” (Brown, 2000: 5). It means that all of people need to communicate each other by using vocal, written and gestural to create a community. Furthermore, language is a very important of communications in social interaction. According to Calllender and Williams (2010: 7), communication is the way to delivered ideas to others. Communication is fundamental to any society. Communication has varieties of auditory such as facial expressions, body language and gestures. One of the communication tool that the people often use now is social media. It is very useful for our daily life for communicate with others.

According to Mayfield (in Sari, 2012), social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online media which share most or all of the following characteristic, participation, openes, conversation, community and connectedness. It means that we can get any advantages from social media if we want to make bussiness there.

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Twitter and Facebook are the most popular of social media that is used by users.

O’Neill (2010) stated that Twitter is a website where the users can leave and write messages of up to 140 characters for other people to read. Moreover, it is as the online equivalent of sending mobile phone SMS messages. It is not only can be used in website but also we can use in our mobile phone.

According to Anne (2012), Facebook is a social networking site used by people more than 800 million active users in every country on the planet, so far in 70 languages. Thus, Facebook can connected us to other people in the world with many languages that different. In addition, the users must selective for using Lebay words in updating status in Twitter because it only write messages of up to 140 characters. Besides, the users can freely updating the status to the Facebook because it can write limited messages.

Moreover, the most important purpose of Twitter and Facebook are to convey many information and messages into reciever in order to persuade the reciever to trust and get something interested in those social media. The receiver can use both of the social media for effectively. Today, Twitter and Facebook are able to share new words that commonly use by the users. According to Toshi (2010), the new words in Indonesia often called by Lebay words. Lebay is the word has the quality of being excessive. Moreover, it refers to a story, personality or personal appearance. It means that the statement that is exaggerated and have exaggeration on connotation. There are some example of Lebay words, such as “You” in daily basis. While in english it’s either “you” or “U” in sms language; Indonesians can say “anda”, “kamu”, “lo”, “elo”, “lu”, “elu”, “mu” and each regions also carry a different word while mix it

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with the standard indonesians. Since Lebay words use the exaggeration of words, it will be categorized as one of figurative expression of figurative language.

Figurative expression can be said as figures of speech. Thomas and Johnson (in Ambarsari, 2013) stated that figurative language is language that cannot be taken literally (or should not be taken literaly only). Figure of speech is any way of saying something other than the ordinary way. So figures of speech is part from figurative language that cannot be separated. It use the words or statement that is exaggerated. The words that we use for Lebay words is called hyperbole in figurative language. Hyperbole is commonly used even by ignorant people and peasants in the sense of exaggeration (Claridge, 2011: 1). “Her blood flowing to be river,” “I am hungry I

could eat elephant,” “your skin is smooth as cotton.” Those of examples are the

overstatement based on the statement above, hyperbole do not take the literally meaning, but adding words what we really mean.

Hence, hyperbole is wellknown as Lebay words in Indonesia. It becomes an attractive figurative language. Although, not all of the Indonesian people can accept that Lebay words because the Lebay words is hard to understand for their communication. Most of the Indonesian teenagers use of Lebay words in Verbal and Non-verbal communication. Because of the Indonesian teenagers more understanding Lebay words in their behavior, spoken and written. Consequently, it desires them to create many new words of Lebay in social network like Facebook, Twitter, Wechat, Yahoo Messanger, etc. Therefore, the researcher considers that there is developing tendency for people to use Lebay words in their daily life.

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Sari (2012) in her research entittled An Analysis “Lebay” Words Used by Twitter Users on Tweeting found that “Lebay” words have three characteristics; repetition of

letters, a new words formation, and “Lebay” in sentences.

According to Haryanti (2013) in her thesis entitled An Analysis of The Lebay Words in Status Updates of Facebookers, there are four types of hyperbole found in Facebook. They were single – word hyperbole, numerical hyperbole, repetition hyperbole and comparison hyperbole.

In a nutshell, based on the explanation of previous reserach, the researcher is interested to compare Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update. The researcher considers that the topic have not been analyzed before . Thus, the researcher believed that the topic can make the users of Indonesian people more understan about Lebay words. They are not only update or read the status update but also know about the meaning. In addition, the researcher uses Lebay words as the object for this research in Twitter and Facebook status update. Because of many Lebay words found in those social media, it will be an interesting topic will be investigated.

1.2Statement of problem

Related to the background of the study, the researcher formulates the problems as follows:

1. What are the similiarities between Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update?

2. What are the differences between Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update?

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1.3Purpose of study

Dealing with statement of problem above, the researcher ’s purposes of the study are:

1. To describe the similiarities between Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update.

2. To reveal the differences between Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update.

1.4Significance of study

From this research the researcher expects that this study can give some contributions. First, the researcher hopes that the readers get more understanding about the similiarity and difference between Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update. Second, the researcher also hopes that the lecturers, students and next reseracher after reading this study, would find grounds for futher research in this area. Moreover, it can encourage other students who learn linguistic field, especially the students of English Department of University of Muhammadiyah Malang who are interested in Literature.

1.5Scope and limitation

The scope of this research are the similiarities and differences between Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update. Then, the limitation of this research are Twitter and Facebook status update of the researcher friends during four hours each day in a week on July 2014.

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1.6Definition of Key Terms

The aim of giving definition of key term is to avoid the misunderstanding of the study. The term which are needed to be defined in this study are as follows:

1. Figurative Language is language that cannot be taken literally or should not be taken in literally only (Thomas and Johnson in Ambarsari, 2013).

2. Lebay is the word thet have a term of slang language which commonly used excessive (Guntur in Haryanti, 2013).

3. Twitter is a free service blending short messaging in social network through computer and cell phone to distribute 140 characters (Horton, 2007: 1).

4. Facebook is a social networking site used by people more than 800 million active users in every country on the planet, so far in 70 languages (Anne, 2012). 5. Status update is unstructured messages that is made by human in their social

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

In this chapter, the researcher presents some topics dealing with introduction. These topics are the background of study, statement of problem, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms.

1.1Background of study

Everyday people use language to communicate each other. “Language is a system of arbitrary conventionalized vocal, written, or gestural that enable members of a given community to communicate intelligibly with one another” (Brown, 2000: 5). It means that all of people need to communicate each other by using vocal, written and gestural to create a community. Furthermore, language is a very important of communications in social interaction. According to Calllender and Williams (2010: 7), communication is the way to delivered ideas to others. Communication is fundamental to any society. Communication has varieties of auditory such as facial expressions, body language and gestures. One of the communication tool that the people often use now is social media. It is very useful for our daily life for communicate with others.

According to Mayfield (in Sari, 2012), social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online media which share most or all of the following characteristic, participation, openes, conversation, community and connectedness. It means that we can get any advantages from social media if we want to make bussiness there.

Twitter and Facebook are the most popular of social media that is used by users. O’Neill (2010) stated that Twitter is a website where the users can leave and write messages of up to 140 characters for other people to read. Moreover, it is as the online equivalent of sending mobile phone SMS messages. It is not only can be used in website but also we can use in our mobile phone.

According to Anne (2012), Facebook is a social networking site used by people more than 800 million active users in every country on the planet, so far in 70 languages. Thus, Facebook can connected us to other people in the world with many languages that different. In addition, the users must selective for using Lebay words in updating status in Twitter because it only write messages of up to 140 characters. Besides, the users can freely updating the status to the Facebook because it can write limited messages.

Moreover, the most important purpose of Twitter and Facebook are to convey many information and messages into reciever in order to persuade the reciever to trust and get something interested in those social media. The receiver can use both of the social media for effectively. Today, Twitter and Facebook are able to share new words that commonly use by the users. According to Toshi (2010), the new words in Indonesia often called by Lebay words. Lebay is the word has the quality of being excessive. Moreover, it refers to a story, personality or personal appearance. It means that the statement that is exaggerated and have exaggeration on connotation. There are some example of Lebay words, such as “You” in daily basis. While in english it’s either “you” or “U” in sms language; Indonesians can say “anda”, “kamu”, “lo”, “elo”, “lu”, “elu”, “mu” and each regions also carry a different word while mix it

with the standard indonesians. Since Lebay words use the exaggeration of words, it will be categorized as one of figurative expression of figurative language.

Figurative expression can be said as figures of speech. Thomas and Johnson (in Ambarsari, 2013) stated that figurative language is language that cannot be taken literally (or should not be taken literaly only). Figure of speech is any way of saying something other than the ordinary way. So figures of speech is part from figurative language that cannot be separated. It use the words or statement that is exaggerated. The words that we use for Lebay words is called hyperbole in figurative language. Hyperbole is commonly used even by ignorant people and peasants in the sense of exaggeration (Claridge, 2011: 1). “Her blood flowing to be river,” “I am hungry I could eat elephant,” “your skin is smooth as cotton.” Those of examples are the overstatement based on the statement above, hyperbole do not take the literally meaning, but adding words what we really mean.

Hence, hyperbole is wellknown as Lebay words in Indonesia. It becomes an attractive figurative language. Although, not all of the Indonesian people can accept that Lebay words because the Lebay words is hard to understand for their communication. Most of the Indonesian teenagers use of Lebay words in Verbal and Non-verbal communication. Because of the Indonesian teenagers more understanding Lebay words in their behavior, spoken and written. Consequently, it desires them to create many new words of Lebay in social network like Facebook, Twitter, Wechat, Yahoo Messanger, etc. Therefore, the researcher considers that there is developing tendency for people to use Lebay words in their daily life.

Sari (2012) in her research entittled An Analysis “Lebay” Words Used by Twitter Users on Tweeting found that “Lebay” words have three characteristics; repetition of letters, a new words formation, and “Lebay” in sentences.

According to Haryanti (2013) in her thesis entitled An Analysis of The Lebay Words in Status Updates of Facebookers, there are four types of hyperbole found in

Facebook. They were single – word hyperbole, numerical hyperbole, repetition hyperbole and comparison hyperbole.

In a nutshell, based on the explanation of previous reserach, the researcher is interested to compare Lebay words found in Twitter and Facebook status update. The researcher considers that the topic have not been analyzed before . Thus, the researcher believed that the topic can make the users of Indonesian people more understan about Lebay words. They are not only update or read the status update but also know about the meaning. In addition, the researcher uses Lebay words as the object for this research in Twitter and Facebook status update. Because of many

Lebay words found in those social media, it will be an interesting topic will be investigated.

1.2Statement of problem

Related to the background of the study, the researcher formulates the problems as follows:

1. What are the similiarities between Lebay words found in Twitter and

Facebook status update?

2. What are the differences between Lebay words found in Twitter and

1.3Purpose of study

Dealing with statement of problem above, the researcher ’s purposes of the study are:

1. To describe the similiarities between Lebay words found in Twitter and

Facebook status update.

2. To reveal the differences between Lebay words found in Twitter and

Facebook status update. 1.4Significance of study

From this research the researcher expects that this study can give some contributions. First, the researcher hopes that the readers get more understanding about the similiarity and difference between Lebay words found in Twitter and

Facebook status update. Second, the researcher also hopes that the lecturers, students and next reseracher after reading this study, would find grounds for futher research in this area. Moreover, it can encourage other students who learn linguistic field, especially the students of English Department of University of Muhammadiyah Malang who are interested in Literature.

1.5Scope and limitation

The scope of this research are the similiarities and differences between Lebay

words found in Twitter and Facebook status update. Then, the limitation of this research are Twitter and Facebook status update of the researcher friends during four hours each day in a week on July 2014.

1.6Definition of Key Terms

The aim of giving definition of key term is to avoid the misunderstanding of the study. The term which are needed to be defined in this study are as follows:

1. Figurative Language is language that cannot be taken literally or should not be taken in literally only (Thomas and Johnson in Ambarsari, 2013).

2. Lebay is the word thet have a term of slang language which commonly used excessive (Guntur in Haryanti, 2013).

3. Twitter is a free service blending short messaging in social network through computer and cell phone to distribute 140 characters (Horton, 2007: 1).

4. Facebook is a social networking site used by people more than 800 million active users in every country on the planet, so far in 70 languages (Anne, 2012).

5. Status update is unstructured messages that is made by human in their social media to share everything.