Open AccessLanguage and Emotion: The Communication Pattern on The Result of Central Jakarta Governor Election on Online Newspaper and Its Pedagogical Implications
Author(s) -
Rahmawati Aprilanita
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of english language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2329-7921
pISSN - 2329-7913
DOI - 10.5430/ijelt.v5n1p35
Subject(s) - newspaper , governor , feeling , headline , indonesian , verb , linguistics , expression (computer science) , psychology , media studies , advertising , political science , social psychology , sociology , computer science , engineering , business , philosophy , programming language , aerospace engineering
The present study aims at observing and presenting the types of language features used by Indonesian adultscommenting on an online news using English as their foreign language to know whether Indonesians tend to be bluntor mitigate in expressing their feeling on the results of central Jakarta governor election. The comments uttered weretheir reaction and expression on the result of Central Jakarta Governor Election. The data observed was taken fromall comments on a headline of online newspaper. The comments were from 74 people. The findings are generatedbased on quantitative calculation on the major verb used to express the feelings.