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ISSN 2301-5837

Vol. 4 / No. 2 / Published : 2015-08

Order : 8, and page :123 - 128

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Original Article :

A comparison of semantic roles on adjectives found between the articles of online gay’s magazine bent and online lesbian’s magazine diva

Author :

  1. Aditya Putra Setiawan*1
  2. Viqi Ardaniah*2
  1. Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Budaya
  2. Dosen Fakultas Ilmu Budaya

Abstract :

The study concerns the different style of gay and lesbian language represented in online mass media, Bent and Diva where specific adjectives are used to keep close to their readers. The study aims to find out the similarities and differences on semantic roles of adjectives used in the articles of online gay’s magazine Bent and online lesbian’s magazine Diva. Sixteen articles from several topics which are Entertainment, Fashion, Travel, and News were chosen. There were 546 adjectives taken from Bent and 304 attributive adjectives taken from Diva. To analyze the data, the writer uses qualitative method and Biber’s theory of semantic roles which distinguishes adjectives into two main groups, descriptor and classifier. The findings show that Bent tends to use emotive and miscellaneous and Diva uses color, time, and size more frequently than Bent. In addition, Bent has high percentage in using relational and affiliative adjective, while Diva has high percentage in topical adjective. These shows that gay’s magazine tends to be more informative and has higher tendency of women’s language especially in the use of adjectives than lesbian’s magazine.  

Keyword :

adjectives, gay language, lesbian language, online magazine, semantic roles,


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