Azizi, Hafizul
(2024)
Sarcasm in Social Media: A Figurative Language Analysis of Ryan Reynolds’ YouTube Videos.
Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.
Abstract
Social media has become an integral part of human life. People can
communicate, connect, and share their experience as well as their feelings with other
people in the world. Some people might used figurative language to convey their
emotions when they are using social media. Ryan Reynolds is an example of a people
used sarcasm, a figurative language, to be used in his social media that is YouTube.
This research aimed to identify types and purposes of sarcasm used in Ryan Reynolds’
YouTube videos. This study used the theory of Camp (2011) regarding types of
sarcasm and Kreuz (1991) regarding purposes of sarcasm. This study uses descriptive
method. The data for this research were 37 sarcastic utterance taken from 15 videos
from Ryan Reynolds’ YouTube channel. The most prominent type of sarcasm used in
Ryan Reynolds’ YouTube videos is propositional sarcasm with 23 occurrences and the
least used type of sarcasm is lexical sarcasm with zero occurrence. The most
prominent purpose of sarcasm is to mock with 15 occurrences and the least used
purpose of sarcasm is to show anger with only one occurrence.
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