Analysis of Expressive Utterances on Instagram Produced by Tertiary Students

This research is focused on expressive utterances on instagram produced by tertiary students. The aims of this study are (1) to identify the forms of expressive utterances on instagram produced by tertiary students and (2) to describe the intentions of expressive utterances on instagram produced by tertiary students. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. There are 25 selected expressive utterances as data of this research. Those are randomly taken from the posts of tertiary student’s instagram from March 2017 until March 2018. The data are analyzed by using the theory of Marcella Frank (1972) and Searle (1976). The result of this research shows that (1) the foms of expressive utterances on instagram produced by tertiary students are divided into 3 and the distribution is: (1) Declarative Sentence 17 data (68%), (2) Imperative Sentence 3 data (12%), (3) Exclamatory Sentence 5 data (20%), (2) The intentions of expressive utterances on instagram produced by tertiary students are divided into 10 and the distribution is: happiness 7 data (28%), proud 2 data (8%), hoping 4 data (16%), tiredness 1 (4%), fear 1 data 2 (4%), love 3 data (12%), condolence 1 data (4%), yearning 4 data (16%), sorrow 1 data (4%), anger 1 data (4%)