Register Used In Nbainstagram : A Sociolinguistics Perspective

This research paper is aimed to describe the meaning of the register type and also the linguistics form used in the NBA Official Pages in Instagram. NBA Official pages are pages for news and also news about NBA basketball players. This page is handled by maintenance that is always updated about basketball news. in it there is a match chart, distribution of score updates, rundown matches and also a list of names of NBA basketball players. There are new words in basketball that not everyone knows what they mean. The data contains words and sentences used on instagram media pages. The data source is on social media Instagram. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The object of research is in the NBA Official pages of Instagram. The writer collects posts on the page on the NBA Official pages of Instagram, reads the posts carefully, and writes down the words and phrases of the list, and provides the data code. In analyzing the data, the writer classifies the data into categories as registers, analyzes the data by identifying the linguistic form of the register, analyzing the types of register types based on Finch and Joos theory. Based on the analysis, the researcher found that in the register type there were 2 formal registers words (10%), 7 consultative register words (35%) and 11 words casual registers (55%). And in linguistic form there are 8 verbs (40%), 5 verbs (25%), 8 verbs + particles (40%), 1 adjective (5%), 2 adjectives + particles (10%), 1 noun (5%), 1 noun + particle ( 5%), and also 2 adverb (10%). This means that the linguistic form that appears more often is the verb + particle (45%)and in the type of casual register is (55%)