Cynism Tik-Tok Comment Column and its Implications for Language Learning

Abstract

Cynicism is a speech that contains ridicule of someone's sincerity. Cynicism has a cruder nature than irony. The purpose of this study is to describe the markers of cynicism spoken by netizens in Popo's tik-tok comments column. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with documentation data collection techniques in the form of observing and taking notes. The data analysis technique used in this study is a technique for direct elements. Data analysis techniques were carried out by data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The data and data sources in this study are the utterances of netizens containing cynicism in the tick-tock comments column. The data collection instrument is a device to screen shoot with validity testing in the form of increasing persistence. The results or findings of this study are in the form of satire from someone who contains rhetorical utterances, proverbs and multiple utterances. These three utterances are interesting for further analysis using grammatical semantic studies. Signs of cynicism spoken by netizens in Popo's tik-tok comments include rhetorical utterances, proverb utterances, and double utterances