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COLLOQUIAL WORDS FOUND ON AWKARIN’S INSTAGRAM

CAPTION

THESIS

By:

AlfiMaulidinaDitriananda

201410100311066

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2018

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COLLOQUIAL WORDS FOUND ON AWKARIN’S INSTAGRAM

CAPTION

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana

Degree in English Language Education

By:

AlfiMaulidinaDitriananda

201410100311066

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2018

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This thesis written by Alfi M. Ditrianandawas approved on August 2, 2018

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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 Language Education

on August 2, 2018

Approved by:

Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

University of Muhammadiyah Malang

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MOTTO AND DEDICATIONS

MOTTO :

“It always seems impossible until it’s done”

(Nelson Mandela)

“Miracle is another words of a hard work”

(Alfi M. Ditriananda)

“Everything in life happens according to our time, our clock. You may look at

your friends and some may seem to be ahead or behind you, but they are not, they

are living according to the pace of their clock.”

(Anonym)

DEDICATION

The researcher dedicate this thesis to:

1. Allah SWT the almighty

2. The researcher’s beloved parents and

family

3. The researcher’s beloved friends

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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY

I hereby declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of

my own work and has not been submitted to any other University or Institution.

I certify that, to the best of my knowledge, my thesis does not infringe upon

anyone’s copyright nor violate any proprietary rights and that any ideas,

techniques, quotations, or any other material from the work of other people

included in my thesis, published or otherwise, are fully acknowledged in

accordance with the standard referencing practices.

I also declare that this is a true copy of my thesis, as approved by my thesis

committee and the English Language Education Department office.

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ABSTRACT

This research discusses integrated social media Instagram and

sociolinguistics, especially in colloquial. Instagram is social media that provides

some features for its users to share a series of pictures and videos. When post

pictures, users can add a caption to identify or give a brief description about the

picture. This research concerned about the colloquial found on Awkarin’s

Instagram caption. There are two research problems (1) What are colloquial words

found on Awkarin’s Instagram caption (2) What are the meaning of colloquial

found on Awkarin’s Instagram caption.

To reveal both research problems, this research employes descriptive

qualitative design. This research also applied research object and subject as

follows; colloquial words and Awkarin’s Instagram caption. Document analysis

is applied as the instrument of this research

Overall, this research gained 28 colloquial which was taken from July 6, 2017

until December 28, 2017. As divided by Part of Speech, 8 colloquials are

indicated as Noun, 4 colloquials are indicated as Verb, 3 colloquials are indicated

as Adjective, 6 colloquials are indicated as Pronoun, 2 colloquials are indicated as

Preposition, 1 colloquial is indicated as Conjunction, 1 colloquial is indicated as

Article, 2 colloquials are indicated as Quantifier, and 1 colloquial is indicated as

Modal.

Key words: Colloquial, Instagram, Caption, Awkarin.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praises be

to Allah, king of the king, the Lord of the world, and the master of the day after,

who has given his blessing and guaidance. The researcher realizes that without his

blessing, mercy, and guidance, it would be possible for herself to finish this thesis.

Shalawat and salam are addressed to the final chosen religious messenger, the

Prophet Muhammad SAW.

The researcher also realized that many people had given their helps and

useful suggestion for the finishing of this thesis. Without the assistance of them,

this Thesis would never have existed. Therefore, the researcher would like to

express her appreciation and sincere thanks to:

1. Dr. Soeparto, M.Pd., the first advisor who has spent a lot of time to give

guidance, suggestions and advice in the accomplishment of this thesis.

2. Adityo, S.S, M.A. as the second advisor who has helped the researcher in

correcting this thesis.

3. Riski Lestiono, M.A as Language expert who has validated this thesis and has

spent time to give a lot of advices.

4. All of lecturers of English Education Department whose name cannot be

mentioned one by one due to limited space. Thanks for all knowledge and

advice that given to researcher.

5. Researcher’s beloved parents, Wahyudi and Suwarti Fitri and researcher’s

beloved sister Mahdavika Qolbi D.S who have prayed, motivated, encouraged,

reminded the researcher to finish this thesis as soon as possible.

6. Researcher’s best partners; Hamidah Bob Said, Mega Aprilia, and Ratna

Cahyanti who always with researcher during writing this thesis and encourage

her to keep going.

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6. Researcher’s best pal; Regita Fristantya, Nur Indah Sari, Irma Nailus S, Putri

M. Ilmi, Femy Martha W, Yolanda Prismawati, S.A. Faradiba Alfi, Vina

Friantika, Nisa Baizurah, Aulia F. Chudlori, Aini Qotrunnada, Ghazali’s

Squad, Satria Mahardika and Aprilaga Arnasila who always advices researcher,

who is with her whenever is needed, who don’t let her to give up, and for not

being a judge and for supporting her.

7. Researcher’s best college friends; Jhulia Megawati, Alfika Nurdiena S, Sufi

Haryati, Ummi Nadifah, Ulul Maulidiyah and all of my classmate in small C

class who always accompany researcher and have spent glorious and

memorable time in whole semester during the study in University of

Muhammadiyah Malang.

8. All staff and member of English Students Sharing Community (ESSCO) whose

name cannot be mentioned one by one. Thanks for all the support and for teach

me what leadership is.

Last but far from least, sincere thanks to who are not mentioned personally

here, without their advice, guidance, support and cooperation, this thesis could

have never been written. Hopefully this thesis becomes the input for the parties in

need.

Malang, July 31, 2018

The Researcher

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Approval ............................................................................................................. iii

Mottos and Dedication ........................................................................................ iv

Letter of Authenticity ........................................................................................... v

Abstract .............................................................................................................. vi

Acknowledgements ............................................................................................ vii

Table of Contents ................................................................................................ ix

CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION

1.1 Research Background .................................................................................... 1

1.2 Research Problem ........................................................................................... 3

1.3 Research Purpose ........................................................................................... 3

1.4 Research Significance ................................................................................... 3

1.5 Scope and Limitation .................................................................................... 4

1.6 Definition of Key Terms ................................................................................ 4

CHAPTER II : REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Instagram ........................................................................................................ 6

2.1.1 Features of Instagram .......................................................................... 6

2.2 Language Variety ........................................................................................... 9

2.2.1 Dialect .................................................................................................. 9

2.2.2 Register ..............................................................................................10

2.2.3 Jargon .................................................................................................10

2.2.4 Style ...................................................................................................11

2.2.5 Slang ...................................................................................................11

2.2.6 Colloquial ..........................................................................................11

2.3 Awkarin ........................................................................................................12

CHAPTER III : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Design ..........................................................................................14

3.2 Research Object ...........................................................................................15

3.3 Research Subject ..........................................................................................16

3.4 Research Instrument ....................................................................................16

3.5 Data Collection ............................................................................................18

3.6 Data Analysis ...............................................................................................19

CHAPTER IV : FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Research Findings ........................................................................................20

4.2 Discussion ....................................................................................................30

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CHAPTER V : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion ....................................................................................................32

5.2 Suggestion ....................................................................................................33

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