Resvicha Leonita Maharaniy works at flight attendant in Batik
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In that utterance shows that Yefrita is a doordie. She was promoting one of the company which needed an employee. The
predicate stance that Yefrita state: “a company that serves a variety of pump order to pulp paper industry, sugar industries, steel mills,
cements, ceramic, and dredging industries, water treatment plants, irrigation, float pumping, food beverage industries, MSG plants,
general industries petroleum industries, etc. is refer to evaluate noun PT. INTIE Tehnik Pompa. Evaluation stance which fou
nd in Yefrita’s status updates are 7 utterances or 23. The percentage of utterance
about affective positioning stance are also found 7 utterances or 23, same with evaluation stance. While epistemic positioning stance is the
most frequency of stance that Yefrita used in her status updates. It can be seen from this status updates:
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The utterance above symbolized degree or Yefrita certainty about object discussion. It is mean that she sure to the man who can make her
world to be happy. The frequency of epistemic positioning stance in Yefrita’ utterance are 16 times or 54 of the percentage.
As a result, Facebook users successfully found their own community and becomes their spiritual leader because of their
tendency to position themselves along epistemic scale certainty. In sum, Facebook users’ evaluative stance object covers people, things
and social phenomena. Their evaluations consist of positive and negative value. It depends on their viewpoint toward the object.
Facebook users’ positioning stance covers subject to selfother. Positioning stance are divided into two, the first is affective
positioning stance which showing emotional feelings about object that refers to a mood, attitude, and feeling. While the second is epistemic
positioning stance which express degreecertainty to object discussion. And the last stance’s type is alignment which alignment with other
subject. Alignment are consisting of two, takes via imitation, feedback, and agreement alignment and takes via changing the topic,
disagreement and refusal dis-alignment.
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From the findings above about stance which found in some utterances in status updates of Facebook users, Facebook users
construct their personal identity through stance taking by evaluating the object, positioning themselves along affective scale or epistemic
stance and alignment with his interlocutor. The researcher concludes that both of college students and non-college students actually more
use positioning stance. From 276 utterances, the researcher has found that there are 51 utterances 18 which show evaluation stance, just 7
utterances for alignment 3, and the most frequency of positioning stance, it is about 218 utterances with percentage 79 which consist of
affective positioning stance 68 utterances or 25 and epistemic positioning stance 150 utterances or 54.