Ayu, Dara Mela and Santi, Vita Nur 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8230-6948
(2023)
Netizens’ Reactions to a Transgender Actor’s Pronoun Change in Instagram: An Engagement System Approach.
Parole: Journal of Linguistics and Education.
ISSN 2338-0683
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Abstract
This study explores netizens' views on transgender actor Elliot Page's December 2, 2020, Instagram post, in which he changes his pronouns to 'he/they'. This qualitative descriptive study evaluates netizen opinions in Elliot Page's coming-out post on Instagram which garnered over 140.000 reactions at the time of analysis, serves as the context. A selection of 24 comments related to gender pronouns has been chosen for the data. This research seeks to examine how online users express their stances, utilizing the engagement system from appraisal theory and helps categorizing netizens’ comments into monogloss and heterogloss. Based on this analysis, netizens seem to support, oppose, or compromise Elliot's gender pronouns using various types of engagement systems. Supporters tend to use monogloss, opponents use contract heterogloss, and neutrals use expand heterogloss.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Gender pronouns, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Engagement system, Social media, Netizens’ comments |
| Subjects: | 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2003 Language Studies |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters |
| Depositing User: | Vita Nur Santi |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Dec 2024 23:23 |
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