LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF PUTRI CANDRAWATI HOAX NEWS: A FORENSIC LINGUISTICS STUDY

This research examines the linguistic features of Putri Candrawati's hoax news. Using Lakoff's (2004) ten linguistic features of women's speech, Indonesian legal violations, and Gibson's (2007) theory of forensic linguistic reasons. The data for this study were taken from Putri. The findings of this study are that there are eight out of ten linguistic features of women's speech in Putri Candrawati's hoax news. It was found that the most dominant features used are intensifiers, empty adjectives, lexical hedges or fillers, hypercorrect grammar, super polite forms, emphatic stress, avoidance of harsh, rude words, and tag questions. Two features are temporarily absent: exact color terms and rising declarative intonation. The results of the study also show that hoax news contains negative and derogatory elements by using defamatory language and baseless accusations. These actions have the potential to violate the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (UU ITE) on defamation through electronic media. This study underlines the importance of forensic linguistics because linguistics and law are closely related.