Impoliteness Communication on Social Media Used by Universitas Iqra Buru Students
One of the positive impacts of social media is to make it easier for humans to communicate. Not all users of this media understand and are aware of the importance of linguistic politeness in communicating through social media. Many negative impacts arise from the incorrect use of language and even being deterred by the Law of Information and Technology. Thus, this study explored the impoliteness of speech on social media Facebook (FB) by Iqra Buru university students. The method applied in this study was a descriptive qualitative method using a pragmatic approach. The description of the research data is in the form of language expressions on Facebook accounts. The data source of this research, namely Facebook users in 2019, totaling 15 FB accounts. Researchers took 15 Facebook accounts to represent the entire Facebook account by looking at the Facebook ad wall status. The results showed that language impoliteness on social media Facebook of Iqra Buru University students had six maxims, namely 1) wisdom, 2) acceptance, 3) generosity, 4) humility, 5) agreement, 6) sympathy. The results of this study provide theoretical and practical contributions in the research of communication through social media.