TY - JOUR
T1 - "Taking it for granted"
T2 - The utilization of pragmatic aspects in entertainment news reporting on Instagram
AU - Khalisah, Alya
AU - Anjarningsih, Harwintha Yuhria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Indonesia University of Education.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Instagram has been one of the main platforms for real-time information seeking for the last five years (Schroeder, 2018). The kind of information that people look for includes entertainment news. The present study aims to examine the way an entertainment news account presents its news content using different pragmatic techniques and how these techniques affect its brand image because minor attention has been paid to purpose-oriented accounts. To fulfill the aim, there are two research problems that are addressed: (1) what are the most common pragmatic techniques used in the captions? And (2) what significance does each technique have in presenting the news and shaping the brand image? Therefore, 36 sample captions from E! News Instagram account, as the most followed entertainment news account on Instagram, were taken, observed, and analyzed using a framework developed by Al-Hindawi and Mehdi (2017) in their article about a pragmatic analysis on American and British website-based entertainment news that focuses on three pragmatic pillars, namely presupposition, Grice's conversational maxims, and allusion. The study found that in the case of E! News, presupposition, violation to Grice's conversational maxims, and allusion are not merely used to keep the content interesting, but they respectively hold important roles in shaping the content of the news, engaging audience's interest, and creating a good brand image.
AB - Instagram has been one of the main platforms for real-time information seeking for the last five years (Schroeder, 2018). The kind of information that people look for includes entertainment news. The present study aims to examine the way an entertainment news account presents its news content using different pragmatic techniques and how these techniques affect its brand image because minor attention has been paid to purpose-oriented accounts. To fulfill the aim, there are two research problems that are addressed: (1) what are the most common pragmatic techniques used in the captions? And (2) what significance does each technique have in presenting the news and shaping the brand image? Therefore, 36 sample captions from E! News Instagram account, as the most followed entertainment news account on Instagram, were taken, observed, and analyzed using a framework developed by Al-Hindawi and Mehdi (2017) in their article about a pragmatic analysis on American and British website-based entertainment news that focuses on three pragmatic pillars, namely presupposition, Grice's conversational maxims, and allusion. The study found that in the case of E! News, presupposition, violation to Grice's conversational maxims, and allusion are not merely used to keep the content interesting, but they respectively hold important roles in shaping the content of the news, engaging audience's interest, and creating a good brand image.
KW - Allusion
KW - Brand image
KW - Conversational maxims
KW - Entertainment news
KW - Instagram
KW - Presupposition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081587158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.17509/ijal.v9i3.23200
DO - 10.17509/ijal.v9i3.23200
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081587158
SN - 2301-9468
VL - 9
SP - 508
EP - 516
JO - Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
JF - Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
IS - 3
ER -