AN ANALYSIS OF ABBREVIATIONS USED BY TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA USERS

Aliza, Silvi and Azwandi, Azwandi and Mei, Hardiah (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF ABBREVIATIONS USED BY TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA USERS. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research aims to find out the abbreviation types used in tweets by Twitter users in education topic and entertainment topic. In addition, also to find out the similarities and differences between abbreviations found in education and entertainment topic in Twitter. This research used Schendl’s theory of five types abbreviations. The research methodology used is descriptive qualitative content analysis, and the corpus of the study consist of tweets containing abbreviations. Data was collected over a one-month period from February 18th to March 18th 2023 by using documentation and classification table to analyze the data. The result indicate that a total 211 abbreviations were found in Twitter, with 103 abbreviations in entertainment and 108 abbreviations in entertainment topic. All five types of abbreviations have been found. They are 44 clipping words (15 entertainment, 19 education), 25 blends (8 entertainment, 13 education) 19 acronyms (7 entertainment, 9 education), 98 initialisms (47 entertainment, 40 education), and 80 contraction (26 entertainment, 27 education). From the finding it can be concluded that the types abbreviation which dominantly found in education and entertainment topics is initialism, and the least found is acronym. Keywords: Abbreviation, Education Topic, Entertainment Topic, Twitter

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