Journal of English Language and Education
Vol 10, No 5 (2025)

Abusive Language Analysis of Netizen Comments on Gus Miftah’s Instagram Account

Salsabila, Salsabila (Unknown)
Syahputra, Bambang Panca (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Sep 2025

Abstract

This study discusses the analysis of abusive language on Gus Miftah's Instagram account that is concerned on investigating the type of abusive language in netizen communication on Gus Miftah Instagram account. The objective of this study is to determine the types of abusive language and explain the process of abusive language used in the comment column of Gus Miftah's Instagram account. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data was obtained from comments of netizen and it was collected by looking at the Instagram comments and taking a note, and the data were analyzed by some steps they were data reduction, data display, drawing and verifying conclusion.  There were 100 abusive languages were found in this study. The data was analyzed by identifying comments into 10 types of abusive language, classifying utterances into each type of abusive language. There were 9 types of abusive language were found in the comment column of Gus Miftah's Instagram account, namely Animals Name, Part of body, Profession, Activity, Adjective, Supernatural Creature, Noun, Kinship, and Foreign Language

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Journal Info

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jele

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of English Language and Education (pISSN: 2597-6850 and eISSN: 2502-4132) is a journal that focuses on researching or documenting issues in education, language education, applied linguistics, English education, English language teaching, English Literature, language assessment and ...