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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
First
chapter consists of background of the study, reason for
choosing the topic, statements of the problems, objectives of the study,
significance of the study, limitation of the study, definition of the key
terms, and organization of the thesis.
A. Background of the Study
Everyone,
whatever his or her job, needs means in doing his or her job. Since there are many
jobs in the world, of course, there will be many means needed to support the
work of each worker. However, there is
only one means, which is very crucial in our daily life. It is
realized or not, this means is always inherent in our daily life, from all
kinds of means, the language is the most important means. Language is often
interpreted as a means to convey feelings and thoughts of human. Therefore, the language is used
to communicate and
convey meaning from one person to
another. Corder stated (1993:22),
The first way we can approach language is as a phenomenon
of the individual person. It is concerned with describing and explaining
language as a matter of human behaviour.
People speak and write, they also evidently read and understand what
they hear. They are not born doing so; they have to acquire these skills. Not
everybody seems to develop them to the same degree. People may suffer accidents
or diseases which impair their performance. Language is thus seen as part of
human psychology, a particular short of behaviour, the behaviour which has as
its principal function that of communication.
Therefore,
language is something that we must acquire not that something naturally exists
in our life. By mastering the language, it
will be easier for us to communicate.
The
international language, English, is widely used in almost all aspects of life,
such as communication, economics, politics, sciences, technology, tourism,
education and entertainment. In other word, English is the most powerful
language in the world. We can deny it. In order to survive in
the era of globalization, in which the development of technology is very rapid,
we need to master the English to communicate and to compete in this harsh
world. We need it to socialize with the global community.
Through English, we can easily communicate to foreigners so that we can develop
our skills in our fields.
Related
to the communication in the society, there is a study about it. Holmes (2001:1)
states that sociolinguistics is concerned with the relationship between
language and the context in which it is used. Sociolinguistics, as a branch of linguistics,
view or put the position of language in relation to the use of language in
society, because in social life human are no longer individuals, but as a
social community. According to the sociolinguistics concepts, the structure of society
that is always heterogenic always influences the language structure. The structure
of society is influenced by many factors, such as ‘who speaks’, ‘with whom’,’
where’, ‘when’, and ‘to what end’. The factors can be grouped as four
components; these are participants, setting, topics, and function.
The
four components are related to the social dimensions, which can help for
understanding the sociolinguistics phenomena recently. These dimensions are
about a social distance scale concerned with participant relationship, a status
of the participant, and a formality relating to the setting or type of
interaction of communication, and the functions of the topic or interaction. It
is the basic way to analyze sociolinguistics phenomenon.
Recent years, the technology influences the
communication of human being. Human not
merely communicate in spoken language for the direct way, but nowadays they can
use many of technologies for doing the direct communication in written
language. We can share our thought directly to everyone through technology.
Because of the technology, we can communicate to another from the different
countries straightaway. One of the products of the technology is Facebook. Facebook
is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to
create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with
friends, family and colleagues.
The
users of Facebook can update their conditions, emotions, and thought on Facebook.
Everyone who makes friend with the users on Facebook can look and comment to
his or her status update. It is not only for doing this, there are some
features on Facebook that can be used by the users (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/facebook.html).
Marketplace, allows users to post, read and respond to
classified ads. Groups, allows users who have common interests to find each
other and interact. Events, allows users to publicize an event, invite guests
and track who plans to attend. Pages, allows users to create and promote a
public page built around a specific topic. Presence technology, allows users to
see which contacts are online and chat.
One
of the features on Facebook is Group. Many people gather on Facebook and make a
group on this site. There are so many Groups, and one of the Groups is Allkpop group.
It is a Group on Facebook, which gives the members news about K-Pop actors and
musicians daily. The K-Pop Lovers, the fans of K-Pop, can give their comment in
the news that is updated based on the Allkpop website news.
The
members of Allkpop group are the users of Facebook around the world, who use
English as the language of communication. Therefore, the researcher chooses Allkpop
group to be analyzed as the representative of many Groups on Facebook.
B. Reason for Choosing the Topic
Facebook is such a phenomenon in the
society. Anyone can use it, wherever and whenever he or she wants. Via Facebook, everyone can interact to each other, although hindered
by distance. Furthermore, group on Facebook makes
someone who does not know each other can share their feeling without knowing
each other personally, each member can communicate as what they want. They can
give comment toward the status update.
The
communication on Facebook attracts the writer to understand the patterns of
conversation of the group. There are many members of Allkpop, and it always
increases everyday. Each member has characteristic to give a comment toward the
news on the status update or give comment to another comment. It is possibly in
the same or different way, for the sociolinguistic’s point of view that the way
human speak is different. The researcher wonders the relationship of the
members.
The
social dimensions can help the researcher to fulfill her curiosity of it. Each
dimension on social dimension will help the researcher to analyze each comment
on group, because each dimension have their own characteristics. The
solidarity-social distance scale can help her to find out the relationship between
the members. The status scale helps the writer to analyze the relative status.
The formality scale helps the writer to assess the influence of the social
setting or type of interaction on language choice. The last one, the referential
and affective function scales help her to get the function of the content of
the comment. From each dimension, the writer hopes that she will find the
answer of her curiosity.
C. Statements of the Problem
The
problems that will be analyzed by the resercher in this study are:
1.
How is the relationship of the members of
Allkpop group on Facebook found in the
comments?
2. What
are the linguistic features indicate the relationship of the members of Allkpop
group on Facebook found in the comments?
D. Objectives of the Study
The researcher
focuses on the study of revealing:
1. To
identify the relationship of the members of Allkpop
group on Facebook found in the comments.
2. To
find out the linguistic features indicate the relationship of the members of Allkpop
group on Facebook found in the comments
E. Significance of the Study
Theoretically, this
study may add current study on sociolinguistics especially about social
dimensions and it can be used as references of related linguistic research
especially to the communication language usage based on social dimensions
analysis.
Practically, this
research offers some benefits to many parties, especially for the researchers,
the academic societies, and the readers. For the researchers, it gives
information about social dimension on sociolinguistics study and it can be used
as references for the next study in analyzing the same field. Then, for
academic societies, it gives contribution to the study of sociolinguistics
focused on social dimensions. It also can be used to understand the social
dimensions on Facebook, especially on the group. The last one is for the
readers. It is useful to enrich the reader’s knowledge in recognizing the
relationship on the study of sociolinguistics.
F. Limitation of the Study
The study focuses on relationship
of the members found in the comment on Allkpop group on Facebook. The
researcher chooses a group called Allkpop group on the Facebook
as its limitation. The time for doing the research was on 3 rd July
2012. The focuses of the research is on the comments towards the status update.
G. Definition of Key Terms
The researcher gives
definition about key terms of the thesis for understanding the content of the
thesis. The definitions are as follow:
1.
Analysis
Hornby
(2000:41) defines the term analysis as the detailed study or examination of
something in order to understand more about it.
2. Relationship
According to Hornby (2000:1117), relationship is the way in which two people, groups,
or countries behave towards each other or deal to each other.
3. Member
Hornby (2000: 269) states that member is a person, country,
or organization that has joined a group, society, or a team.
4.
Comment
Hornby (2000:255) defines the term comment as something that
you sat or write which gives an opinion on or explain somebody or something.
5. Allkpop
group
Allkpop is a group on Facebook, where the
Korean Pop Lovers can get the newest news of their Korean idols. This group
status updates are from the Allkpop website
6. Facebook
Kelsey
(2010:6) defines that Facebook is an excellent gathering point for collecting
stories and digital artifacts and sharing them online.
H. Organization of Study
There are five
chapters in this thesis. The first chapter consists of background of the study,
reason for choosing the topic, statements of the problems, objectives of the
study, significance of the study, the limitation of the study, definition of
the key terms, and organization of the thesis.
The second chapter is
about the theoretical foundations of the study of this thesis. This first part
of this thesis discusses sociolinguistics. The second part discusses social
dimensions, which are consist of relationship, status, setting, and function.
The third part is discusses Facebook focuses on group on Facebook. The last
part discusses Allkpop group.
The third chapter is
research method. It describes research method that describes about source of
the data, type of the research, population, sample and sampling, research
instrument, technique of collecting data.
The fourth chapter is
research finding and discussion. It describes the description of data and
result of data analysis and discussions.
The fifth chapter is
conclusions and suggestions.
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