SWEAR WORDS IN HATE SPEECH IN RELATION TO GAGA MUHAMMAD AND RACHEL VENNYA'S COURT CHARGE

Abstract

Several cases in Indonesia have recently received a lot of attention, including the court case of Gaga Muhammad for drunk driving, which left his girlfriend, Laura Anna, seriously disabled in 2019. Not only Gaga Muhammad, Rachel Vennya, a celebrity who bribed quarantine officers to escape from the quarantine period is also widely discussed. Gaga and Rachel received a lot of protests and hate speech from Indonesian netizens. Therefore, the researcher wants to examine some of these hate comments, with a special focus on the swear words in them. Qualitative descriptive analysis was used in this investigation. The aim is to find information about the various forms and meanings of swear words used by netizens recently. The researcher describes the results of data analysis which include: 1) abbreviations, 2) clippings, 3) associations, 4) words used are monophthongized, 5) words that lose vowels, 6) words formed from improvised original words, 7) use of foreign languages, and 8) changes in meaning in a sentence. 9) words with connotations.