The article explored the phenomenon of expressive urban cultures which was featured in Indonesian song lyrics and potentially contained vulgarism. It utilized a Qualitative Approach in an attempt to discover the expressive urban cultures in vulgar song lyrics. The data source derived from several Indonesian songs from various genres (especially pop and dangdut). Meanwhile, the data consisted of the lingual units of vulgar speeches in the forms of words, phrases, and clauses. A Content Analysis was deployed as the data collecting technique. The findings revealed that 1) the phenomenon of expressive urban cultures had led to the common use of vulgar language in Indonesian song lyrics; 2) women were negatively exposed through vulgarism in all Indonesian songs from the data source. The Linguistics forms of the expressive urban cultures consisted of words, phrases, and clauses. In regards to the negative exploitation, the women's position mostly appeared in multiple black labels, for instance as kept women, sex workers, paramours, harlots, second wives, evil women, etc.

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan penggunaan jenis kohesi leksikal yang terdapat dalam surat kabar Kompas edisi Desember 2015 dan implementasi sebagai bahan ajar bahasa Indonesia di SMK. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Data dalam penelitian ini berupa kata, frasa, dan kalimat-kalimat yang memuat penggunaan kohesi leksikal dalam surat kabar harian Kompas edisi Desember 2015 dan kohesi leksikal sebagai materi bahan ajar bahasa Indonesia di SMK. Sumber data penelitian ini yaitu surat kabar Kompas edisi 2015. Prosedur pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik pustaka, teknik baca, dan teknik catat. Prosedur analisis data menggunakan metode agih. mengumpulkan data, menggolongkan sesuai dengan jenis kohesi. Pemeriksaan keabsahan data menggunakan triangulasi peneliti. Hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat enam jenis kohesi leksikal, repetisi, sinonimi, antonimi, hiponimi, kolokasi, dan ekuivalensi dalam surat kabar Kompas dan kohesi leksikal. Sebagai bahan ajar bahasa Indonesia di SMK materi kohesi menunjang kelengkapan materi klasifikasi kata berdasarkan bentuk kata, makna kata berdasarkan kelas kata, dan penggunaan kamus dalam mencari bentuk, kategori, dan makna kata.

This study reviews the use of language in political propaganda on beritasatu.com. His research focus on the sarcastic culture of political communication. The purpose of his research is to describe the tendency of the current political culture of Indonesian society, in choosing sarcastic diction for political propaganda. The study was conducted with a qualitative paradigm. The results show that Indonesians today are accustomed to using the style of sarcasm in political propaganda with the aim of insinuating or attacking political opponents. Sarcasm is a deviation of the pragmatic form of language use, namely impoliteness which is done intentionally for a particular purpose. The use of sarcasm in political propaganda leads to a culture of impoliteness which is a violation of the ethics of communication.

The article reveals how language maintains moral values. It specifically discusses the prohibition of several English songs by the Indonesian Regional Broadcasting Commission West Java Chapter (KPID JABAR) due to their vulgar contents. The discussion covers the disposition of language and morality, which were viewed from the perspective of morality. The article aims to (1) reveal various vulgar contents conveyed explicitly and implicitly in a number of English songs which were prohibited by KPID JABAR (2) discuss the relationship between vulgarism and language morality in the context of Indonesian culture, as an attempt to provide an explanation on why KPID JABAR prohibited those songs at the particular broadcasting hours. It deployed a Descriptive Qualitative method, as the study highlighted the language phenomenon in society. The data consisted of all lingual forms of those English songs, including vocabularies, phrases, clauses, sentences, and discourses that contained vulgarism. Meanwhile, the data source included 17 English songs banned by KPID JABAR. It combined listening, transcription, and reading as the series of data collection technique. The data analysis featured a Content Analysis, in which the researchers stood as the key instruments, as they are native speakers of Indonesian Language and fully understand the norms of Indonesian cultural morality. The findings essentially proved the existence of vulgar contents promoted by those songs, either explicitly or implicitly. It implied that KPID JABAR's policy to prohibit those songs had reflected a standard measure of the Indonesian morality that should uphold the politeness principles in conveying ideas through language.