The Impoliteness Strategies of Netizens’ Comments on Trump and Jokowi’s Tweets about Covid-19

Abstract

The sophistication of technology makes all information in one click away. The easiness in sharing and exchanging any news creates a virtual world community with active netizens just like in the real world. Netizens communicate actively through sending the latest statuses and other netizens give any comments later. The various comments provoke further comments. Twitter is one of the social media that is widely used by various groups with some purposes, one of them is for giving information and education. Netizens’ tweets have the important role in spreading the news globally. It can be seen from the existence of accounts of the Head of State and other related official accounts. The news of the Corona Virus towards the end of 2019 receives breathless attention from netizens. In a short amount of time, the news of Corona Virus pandemic becomes the trend topic on various social media. In this case, American and Indonesian netizens wait eagerly about Trump and Jokowi’s tweets about COVID-19, with various comments that follow. This description formulates the problem in this study. It elaborates the impoliteness strategies of netizens’ comments on Trump and Jokowi’s tweets about COVID-19. Then, the result of this study is to enrich politeness and impoliteness study in Pragmatic Class.