IMPOLITE READER RESPONSES ON ONLINE NEWS COMMENTS IN VIVA.CO.ID

The objective of this descriptive qualitative study were to discover: (1) the types
of impolite utterances, (2) the realizations of impolite utterances, and (3) the
reasons of using impolite utterances used by the readers as their responses on
online news comments in viva.co.id news site. The data were the reader’s
utterances on online news comments in political news in order to find out the
recurrances and the pattern of the data based on the problem of the study. The
findings of the study shows that from four types of impolite utterances, there were
three types of them occured namely attack on quality face (75.7%), attack on
social identity face (20.5%) and attack on assosiation right (3.8%). Meanwhile
impolite utterances attack on equity right was absence. It was also found that
impolite utterances were realized by online news readers through disinterested,
unconcerned, unsymphatetic; inappropriate identity markers; abscure or secretive
language; seek disagreement; taboo words; call the other names; frighten;
condescend, scorn of ridicule; negative personalize; disassociate from others and
insult. The last finding shows that there were some reasons for using impolite
utterances, they are to vent negative feelings, to serve collective intentions, to
show disagreement, to show dissatisfaction, to mock the other and to clarify
something.