THE REALIZATION OF GENDER ARGUMENTS IN INSTAGRAM :a Case Study of Donald Trump’s Political Status

This research deals with the realization of gender argument in instagram: a case study of donald trump’s political status which contained the way of male and female participants in delivering arguments on instagram. The purposes of this study are to describe the types of argument those occur in instagram and to describe how the gender arguments about Donald Trump’s Political status are realized in instagram. The data in this study are thirty arguments; fifteen arguments from male and the others fifteen arguments from female. The data were selected in one month. This research was conducted by applying qualitative descriptive research. Types of argument are analyzed by using Barwise theory,it shows that male instagram participants tend to use conjunction, negation, conditional and disjunction to convey their argument in instagram while female instagram participants tend to use negation, conjunction and conditional in instagram. The realization of argument analysis by using Andrew theory showed that male instagram participants tend to argue logically whereas female instagram participants tend to argue illogically. This study also finds some argument with double types in one text of argument.