THE REALIZATION OF GENDER ARGUMENTS IN TWITTER

This research deals with the realization of gender arguments in Twitter. The objectives of the research were to identify the types of arguments used by male and female across gender and social status and to find out the factor underlying these types occured in that way. To achieve the objectives, this research was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative design. The subject of this research was the three different social status males and females. The pair interaction was appeared to conduct this research, namely; female to male interaction and female to female interaction across social status. The data was collected from the tweets with three different topics (death penalty, law and education) which posted on twitter by all the subjects. The data was analyzed by applying Mile’s ajd Hubberman’s model. The finding showed that males to female interaction argued by three type of arguments; conjunction, conditional and biconditional, female female to female interaction argued by all types of arguments; negation, disjunction, conjunction, conditional and biconditional, males were siginificantly are more aware with their status in establishing and maintaning the interaction than female, those were more considarate with their interlocutors.