Nikmatus Sholikhah
Magister Linguistik, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta

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Morphological forms of abbreviation in the tweets of the @Jogmfs Twitter account Nikmatus Sholikhah
Journal of Language and Literature Inquiry Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): May 2026
Publisher : Privietlab

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This study examines the morphological forms of abbreviation employed as communicative strategies in tweets published on the Indonesian Twitter account @jogmfs. Adopting a descriptive qualitative research design, the data were collected from tweets posted on November 1, 2023, through systematic observation, documentation, and note-taking techniques. The collected data were subsequently analyzed using Kridalaksana's (2007) morphological framework, which classifies abbreviated forms into five categories: singkatan (initialism), akronim (acronym), penggalan (clipping), kontraksi (contraction), and lambang huruf (letter symbol). The findings reveal that abbreviation practices on the @jogmfs account manifest across three of these five categories, those are initialism, acronym, and clipping. Initialism emerging as the most dominant form distributed across eight sub-patterns of letter retention. The absence of contraction and letter symbol in the dataset suggests that the communicative norms of this particular digital community favor specific morphological shortening strategies. These findings affirm that the structural character limitation inherent to Twitter as a microblogging platform constitutes a primary driver of abbreviation use, compelling users to adopt linguistically compressed forms that prioritize communicative efficiency.