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Speech act of flaming in Twitter status: issues and concerns in the Malaysian context
Norizah Ardi1, Amirah Ahmad2, Noriza Daud3, Nurrissammimayantie Ismail4.
Speech acts are a way to conceptualize speech as an action. Speech act of flaming is an
utterance that expresses insults; swearing; and hateful; intense language in hostile online interaction.
Flaming is an expressive speech act and often leads to the trading of insults between members within a
certain conversation. Social media is one of the platforms that has been used to express, comment and
voice out emotions. In this study, the speech act of flaming in a Twitter status will be analysed based
on the Malaysian context. The data of this study is a compilation of Twitter statuses consisting of 2.5
million words and is labelled as Malaysian Twitter Status Context corpus (MTSC). The tweets were
analysed based on 14 subcategories of flaming (Bansal, Nittin, Siddhartha, Kapil, Anuj, Sheenu,
Kanika, Kunal, Kunal, Manav, 2012 and Revathy & Norizah, 2017). This study adopted the qualitative
approach through contextual analysis. Findings of this study showed that flaming in Malaysian context
can be direct or intentional; and indirect based on the intentions (illocutionary force) to offend other
tweeters. Findings of this study show that language usage among youngsters specifically the tweeters
are not in line with the values and ethics that have been practiced in our culture and society.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM Shah Alam, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM Shah Alam, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM Shah Alam, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM Shah Alam, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Malaysia
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