WACANA HUMOR DALAM MEME DI MEDIA ONLINE SEBAGAI POTRET KEHIDUPAN SEBAGIAN MASYARAKAT INDONESIA
This study aims to describe themes and topics, implicatures, and language aspects in
humor discourse in memes in online media. The study employed the descriptive research
design. The data sources were 70 memes in four sites of online meme media, i.e. www.
memecomicindo.com,www.indomeme.com, www.memecomic.id, and www.1cak.com.
The results of the study are as follows. First, there are four meme themes in online media;
they are social, political, legal, and religious themes. Second, there are three implicatures in
memes in online media, namely insinuation, suggestion, and the combination of insinuation
and suggestion. Third, there are two language aspects that support implicatures and result
in humor in memes, namely the phonological and semantic aspects. The phonological
aspect includes the repetition of sounds which in literature is often called a rhyme. The
semantic aspect comprises the repetition of words and the use of similes, metaphors,
hyperboles, personifications, syllogisms, abbreviations, and proverbs.
Keywords: themes, topics, implicatures, language aspects, memes
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