Interpretation of State Minister of Youth and Sports and Indonesian President’s Speech on the 2018 Asian Games in Social Media

Abstract

The advanced technology development unconsciously makes people aware that every activity they do revolves around it. One of the most impactful things is language activity on social media. As widely known, in this multimedia era, social media plays an important role as the main means of communication. People are free to express the languages easily to produce many kinds of information. However, that information is not always interpreted well and accurately by other people or the readers. Therefore, someone should accordingly perceive the information from others’ speech on social media so that the interpretation process undergone can be compatible with what the speaker means. Based on this phenomenon, this study aimed to describe the steps of speech interpretation which are: (1) references; (2) local interpretation and analogy; and (3) presupposition in netizen’s speech on social media. Keywords―interpretation, speech act, social media.