A Pragmatic Review of Indonesian Netizen’s Twitter Opinions About The Russia VS Ukraine’s War

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the analysis of Indonesian sentiment regarding the Russia vs Ukraine war with pragmatic studies. There are two things discussed, namely the function and meaning of speech acts resulting from Indonesian public opinion regarding the Russia vs Ukraine war on Twitter. This research is a descriptive qualitative research using pragmatic equivalent method and speech act theory. The results of the study found 4 (four) functional classifications of illocutionary speech acts, namely assertive, directive, expressive, and commissive. The speech is divided into assertive illocutionary speech acts which contain meaning: explaining, telling, stating, predicting, concluding, determining, affirming, and denying. Then, directive illocutionary speech acts contain the meaning of asking, inviting, warning, asking and forbidding. Then, expressive illocutionary speech acts contain the meaning of giving thanks, blaming and satirizing. Finally, commissive illocutionary speech acts imply promises and threats. The researcher found that some of the utterances that often appeared meant: giving statements, asking questions and making suggestions.