Detecting Hate Speech Acts in Social Media
Rahmadsyah Rangkuti
1
, Andi Pratama Lubis
2
and Zulfan
3
1
Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
2
Department of Arabic, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
3
Department of Linguistic, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
Keywords: Hate Speech, Social Media, Speech Act.
Abstract: Hate speech acts that occur in the online realm expressed with words of prejudice and negative feelings are far
more dangerous than in the offline realm. Hate speech is a new area in the study of illocutionary speech acts.
This new area of speech acts becomes more interesting because every hate speech has various meanings or
illocutionary forces based on speaker’s intention. This study aims to analyze the classifications and aims of
illocutionary acts and illocutionary forces of hate speech contained in the facebook group account related to
Batu Bara district’s local election. The research method is descriptive qualitative. The data of this research
are utterances/speeches of facebook users in Batu Bara district’s local election group account. Data were
collected using the refer method by technique of record. This method is used to observe the expression of
speech of the facebook users’ hatred on issues related to social, cultural and political background on each
candidate. Record techniques are used to record the utterances and expression of hatred uttered by the net
citizens.
1 INTRODUCTION
This research is motivated by the rise of hate speech
phenomena in the life of Indonesian multicultural
society both in the offline domain and in the online
domain that can trigger social conflict and cause the
vulnerability of the integrity of the State (Ahnaf and
Suhadi, 2015).
Hate speech can be understood as any form of
expression that is propagated to incite, promote or
justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, or
other forms of hatred rooted in intolerance, including
intolerance expressed by nationalism and aggressive
ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility towards
minorities and migrants (Weber, 2009). A somewhat
similar definition is also conveyed by national human
rights commission of the Republic of Indonesia that
what is meant by hate speech is any action and effort
either directly or indirectly based on hatred on tribe,
religion, religious stream, belief/faith, race,
interclass, color skin, ethnicity, gender, disability, and
sexual orientation which is incitement towards
individuals and groups to discriminate, violence,
disappearance of life and /or social conflict through
various means (Komisi Nasional Hak Asasi Manusia
Republik Indonesia, 2016).
The Police of Republic of Indonesia cyber crime
unit stated in 2015 there were 671 reports related to
hate speech (Nadia, 2016). That number continues to
rise in 2016 which amounted to 1829 cases, and until
the end of 2017 reached 3325 cases (Medistiara,
2017). The number shows that there is an increase in
hate speech cases on the online sphere.
To anticipate the above phenomena, the
Indonesian government has actually created two laws
and regulations that substantially regulate hate
speech, the Criminal Code (KUHP) and the
Information and Electronic Transaction Act of 2008
(Rongiyati, 2015). However, the more massive
phenomena of hate speech contribute to the
emergence of a Circular Letter of the Chief Police of
the Republic of Indonesia No. SE / 6 / X / 2015 on the
handling of hate speech. In the circular letter, as a law
enforcement officer, the Indonesian National Police
describes that hate speech may takes various forms
such as criminal offenses, defamation, blasphemy,
unpleasant acts, provocation, incitement and
spreading of hoax.
The description of various forms of hate speech is
a new subject for linguistic studies, especially in
discourse analysis (Gagliardone, Patel & Pohjonen,
2014) and pragmatics (Assimakopoulos, Baidar &
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Millar, 2017, or speech acts related studies. However,
Özarslan (2014) stated that speech act theory can be
applied in analyzing hate speech. According to him,
in the concept of speech acts, as proposed by Austin
(1962) that when someone says something, he also
does something, and may also do hate speech acts
related to social and cultural context.
As the core study of speech acts, Searle develops
and classifies speech acts into five types namely, 1.
Representatives (Assertives) are those kinds of
speech acts that state what a speaker believes to be the
case or not 2. Commissives are those kinds of speech
acts that speakers use to commit themselves to some
future action 3. Directives are those kinds of speech
acts that speakers use to get someone else to do
something 4. Declarations are those kinds of speech
acts that change the world via their utterance and 5.
Expressives are those kinds of speech acts that state
what the speaker feels (Searle, 1979). The proposed
classification is based on three main principles
namely, illocutionary point or the purpose of the
speaker, words adjusted to the reality of the world
(direction of fit), and psychological states/ sincerity
condition.
Table 1. Searle's Classification of Speech Acts (adapted
from Yule, 1996)
Speech act
type
Direction of fit S = Speaker
X = Situation
Assertives make words fit
the worl
d
S believes X
Commissives make the world
fit words
S intends X
Directives make the world
fit words
S wants X
Declarations word changes the
worl
d
S causes X
Expressives make words fit
the worl
d
S feels X
Searle has also proposed the idea that the
realization of speech acts is influenced by four
conditions, namely (1) the propositional content
condition, (2) the preparatory condition, (3) the
sincerity condition, and (4) the essential condition
(Searle, 1969). According to him, each of these
conditions can distinguish the intention of each form
of speech acts.
In relation to this, there are several studies that
have been done based on the perspective of linguists
in assessing the phenomena of hate speech. For
example, research conducted by Mintonawati (2016)
associated with defamation cases on Facebook's
social network using linguistic forensic studies
involving lexical semantic analysis, grammatical
semantics and analysis of illocutionary speech acts.
To sum up, this research has not found specific type
of illocutionary acts and forces from the data.
Towsend (2014) in his research, also did not mention
clearly the types of illocution of hate speech cases he
discussed.
Slightly different from the two earlier studies,
Virginia and Olanrewaju (2017) in their research
based on speech analysis of the politician's language
in Nigerian magazines and newspapers in 2012-2015
show that violence, extortion, provocation and
intimidation. However, their research has not
specified the type of illocutionary acts of the
politicians' speeches.
Another study was Linawati's research (2017),
which was specifically done in analyzing the
netcitizen's utterances in the Online Tribunnews.com
newspaper comment column. Using the theory of
speech acts, she has successfully found various forms
of hate speech in the Online Tribunnews.com
newspaper comment column such as, humiliation,
defamation, unpleasant acts, provocation and
incitement and based on speech act types she found
assertive, directive and commissive. Linawati's
research has not found the expressive type of hate
speech.
The last is a study done by Octaviani (2017).
Based on her research conducted using ethnography
of communication, it was found that there were forms
of hate speech in the instagram account of former
Governor of the Special District of Jakarta, Basuki
Tjahaja Purnama. The forms of hate speech include
humiliation, defamation, blasphemy, provocation,
spreading hoax, and incitement. According to her, all
forms of hate speech have impacts such as
excommunication, discrimination, violence, hatred
towards groups, and group extermination. However,
this research has also not found the expressive type of
hate speech.
Based on the above explanation of hate speech
from linguistic perspective, this research tries to find
the classification and aims of hate speech acts
contained in Facebook group account related to Batu
Bara district local election. This is important because
the propensity for spreading hate speech is more
massive when entering the period of direct election of
regional heads and closely related to the discourse to
seize or maintain the power (George, 2017). More is
known at this time that one of the four pairs of
candidates for regional head of Batu Bara distrct is
Chinese descendant. This fact is increasingly
encouraging the occurrence of hate speech in the
social media such as Facebook done by each
supporters.
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2 METHOD
The research method used is descriptive qualitative.
This research method aims to describe, summarize
various conditions, various situations, or various
phenomena of social reality. The study also attempts
to draw the reality to the surface as a characteristic,
character, trait, model, sign, or description of a
particular condition, situation, or phenomenon
(Bungin, 2017).
The data are utterances or speech in the form of
words, phrases and sentences. The data are from the
utterances or speech of the members and net citizens
in the Facebook group account KOMBUR-
KOMBUR PILKADA BATU BARA 2018
MENUJU MASYARAKAT EKONOMI BB
BERSINAR (Towards the prosperity of Batu Bara)
and Facebook group account KOMBUR-KOMBUR
PILKADA BATUBARA 2018. Data collected using
the refer method (Sudaryanto, 2015). This method is
used to observe the speech of net citizen's hatred on
issues related to the social, cultural and political
background of each candidate. The technique of
record is used to record the expression of hate speech
by the net citizens (Sudaryanto, 2015).
The data collected then analyzed using contextual
analysis method (Rahardi, 2009). A contextual
analysis is simply an analysis of a text (in whatever
medium, including multi-media) that helps us to
assess that text within the context of its historical and
cultural setting, but also in terms of its textuality – or
the qualities that characterize the text as a text.The
context referred to in this method is the language
environment. Linguistic environment may be
physical environment or nonphysical environment. In
other words the context can be understood as the
background knowledge shared by speakers and
hearers, so the hearers understand what the speakers
mean (Leech, 1983).
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In accordance with the objectives of the study, then in
this section results and discussion of research that
includes two things will be presented, namely: 1),
classification and, 2) aims of hate speech found in
Facebook group account KOMBUR- KOMBUR
PILKADA BATU BARA 2018 MENUJU
MASYARAKAT EKONOMI BB BERSINAR
(Towards the prosperity of Batu Bara) and Facebook
group account KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA
BATUBARA 2018.
3.1 Results
Based on the speech acts theory described earlier,
three types of illocutionary acts are found. The three
types of illocutionary act have their own meanings
and parameters. They were found from thirteen
utterances of net citizens in the Facebook account. Of
the thirteen utterances three illocutionary forces are
found. All the findings can be seen in the following
table.
Table 2. List of hate speech found in Facebook group
accounts KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA
BATUBARA 2018 MENUJU MASYARAKAT
EKONOMI BB BERSINAR (Towards the prosperity
of Batu Bara) and KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA
BATUBARA 2018
No Hate speech Illocutionary
Acts
1 Cino dah makin merajolela
di Indonesia ini di seluruh
p
enjurunyo […]
Assertive
2 Kojap lagi Indonesia pun
men
j
adi ne
g
aro cino[…]
Assertive
3 Kalau bukan punyo asing
mako
p
un
y
a asen
g
[…]
Assertive
4 Kalau cino menghalalkan
segala cara demi harta
karna mereka mati bawak
harta tidak kenal riba[…]
Assertive
5 Saya pribadi tak ondak dan
tak rela apobilo btu bra ni
di kuasai oleh cino.
Assertive
6 Selain dia yg di dukung itu
thionghoa kturunan.
Assertive
7 Semua nya dri cina
kemunis
Assertive
8 Dai dulu kami ondak milih
pak zahir tapi chino di
belakangnya jadi malas
odan.
Assertive
9 Ini salah satu cabup
batubara yg di tunggangi
anak cina sbg cawabup
nya.
Assertive
10 Ganyang CINA Directive
11 Pukimak kau china Ex
p
ressive
12 Kau bukan ada hak dalam
negeri kami
Assertive
13 USIRRRR CHINA DARI
INDONESIA
Directive
3.2 Discussion
Based on the analysis that has been done on both
Facebook group accounts, three classifications of
illocutionary acts are found, assertive, directive and
expressive.
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3.2.1 Assertive
Assertive is a speech act involving the speaker on the
truth of the expressed proposition. For example,
states, notices, prides, complains, demands, and
reports. Therefore, every act of assertive can be
judged to be true. In other words, that in every
assertive, speaker speaks the words to the world
(belief). Then every speech from every speaker
within the two Facebook group accounts expresses
the speakers' true belief on the information,
experience and evidence they have related to Chinese
ethnic in Indonesia. In this case it is the truth that the
Chinese descendants are trying to dominate Indonesia
in any way. Based on the truth as believed by each
speaker, the assertives found in this study can be
described as follows.
Table 3. Illocutionary assertive acts found in
KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA BATUBARA 2018
MENUJU MASYARAKAT EKONOMI BB
BERSINAR (Towards the prosperity of Batu Bara) and
KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA BATUBARA 2018
Illocutionar
y
Assertive Act
Propositional
content
truth of the information, experience
and evidence that Chinese
descendants try to dominate
Indonesia
Pc
Preparatory 1. Speaker (S) has facts, reasons,
evidences on Pc
2. Hearer has no clear reasons on
Pc
Sincerit
y
Speaker believes Pc
Essential Pc shows that the information is true
There are three sub types of assertive found in this
case, namely;
a. Statement. This sub type indicates the speaker’s
belief in stating something. There are two aims of this
sub type, to state and to inform. The parameter of this
category is when th e speaker speaks, the speaker
states that the Proposition is: i). stating that there is
information, ii). experience and iii). evidence that he
believes that Chinese is an ethnic who is trying to
dominate Indonesia in any way. The explanation of
this sub-type can be seen as follows,
(1) Cino dah makin merajolela di Indonesia ini
diseluruh penjurunyo [...] (HS.01) ‘Chinese are
rampant all over Indonesia’. The utterance (1) is
statement sub type of assertive.
Through the speech (1) speaker tries to declare
that Chinese in Indonesia are trying to dominate
Indonesia. It seems that this prejudice arose after the
presidential election of Indonesia in 2014. It
continued after the act to protect Islam against
defamation I, II, and III which asked the government
to punish Basuki Tjahaja Purnama who had defamed
Islam. Meanwhile, the news of a large wave of
foreign workers from the People's Republic of China
(PRC) is increasingly leads to situations and
sentiments between ethnics and religions in
Indonesia. One way to think about the speech acts
being performed via utterances is to assume that
underlying every utterance (U) there is a clause,
containing a performative verb (Vp) which makes the
illocutionary force explicit (Austin, 1962). This is
known as performative hypothesis and the basic
format of the underlying clause is ‘I (hereby) Vp you
(that) U’ (Yule, 1996). Applying paraphrase
technique as proposed by Sudaryanto (2015) on hate
speech (1) the true aim of statement of assertive sub
type can be exercised, “I hereby {state/ inform} you
that Chinese are rampant all over Indonesia”.
b.Predicting. This sub-type predicts what will happen
in the future based on the speaker's belief. The
parameter of this sub type is when speaker utters the
speech, the speaker predicts the Proposition (Pc): i).
Predicting that something will happen as evidence
that the information, experience and evidence of
ethnic Chinese ambition that he has is true.
Explanation of this sub-type can be seen as follows,
(2) Kojap lagi Indonesia pun menjadi Negara Cina
[...] (HS.02) In the near future Indonesia will become
China [...]. The sub-type truth can be tested by the
performative hypothesis and paraphrase technique as
described earlier. Consider the following illustration
: (2) I hereby {predict} that in the near future
Indonesia will become China [...]
Based on the above paraphrase technique, it can
be said that the speech (2) is an assertive of predicting
sub-type, the speaker intended to predict what would
happen if the Chinese and the foreign workers from
China had succeeded in carrying out Indonesia.
3.2.2 Directive
Directive is is a speech act intended by the speaker to
make the hearer does something. For example,
ordering, begging, requesting, suggesting, and
advising. Therefore, the proposition content of the
directive speech act is a future act of the hearer. Based
on this, it is understood that in each directive speech,
the speaker seeks to make the world fit words.
Related to that, then every directive speech within the
two Facebook accounts express the actions of hearers
in the future that is a solicitation to murder Chinese
descendants and an order to expel them from
Indonesia.
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Table 4. Illocutionary Directive acts found in Facebook
group accounts of KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA
BATUBARA 2018 MENUJU MASYARAKAT
EKONOMI BB BERSINAR (Towards the prosperity
of Batu Bara) and KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA
BATUBARA 2018
Illocutionar
y
Directive Acts
Propositional
content
An action (A) that will be carried
out by the hearer in the future
Preparatory 1. The hearer (H) can do an action
(A), and the speaker believes
that the hearer is able to do an
action (A)
2. It is not clear to the speaker and
the hearer that the hearer is able
to do an action as directed by
the s
p
eake
r
Sincerity The speaker wanted the hearer to
do an action (A)
Essential To persuade the hearer to do an
action (A)
Based on the description above, one sub type of
directive is found namely solicitation.This sub-type
is based on the speaker's desire for the hearer to do
something in the future. The parameter is when telling
the speech, the speaker persuades the hearer to
perform an action, if the speaker expresses: i). the
desire that the hearer does an action (A), ii). that
action (A) is the speaker's desire. An explanation of
this sub-type can be seen as follows, (3) Ganyang
CHINA. (HS.03) 'Kill Chinese descendants'. Speech
(3) is a solicitation sub-type of illocutionary directive
acts. Through speech (3) speaker tries to persuade
hearer to kill Chinese descendants. To examine the
truth of this sub-type the formula "S verb (O) that X"
or "S verb O to Y" is used (Yule, 1996). Consider the
following: (3) I persuade you to kill Chinese
descendants. After using paraphrase technique, it can
be said that speech (3) is a solicitation sub-type of
illocutionary directive acts, in which the speaker
persuades the hearer to kill Chinese descendants.
3.2.3 Expressive
Expressive is a speech act that expresses the speaker's
psychological attitude to a situation. It could be an
expression of gratitude, joy, hatred, anger,
forgiveness, blame, praise, condolence, and so on.
Yule (1996) explains that when speakers use
illocutionary expressive acts they attempt to fit words
to the world. Based on this, it can be understood that
every illocutionary expressive acts found in this study
show resentment of speakers to Chinese descendants
based on a state of experience, information, and
evidence that already possessed by speakers.
Table 5. Illocutionary Expressive acts found in
Facebook group accounts of KOMBUR-KOMBUR
PILKADA BATUBARA 2018 MENUJU
MASYARAKAT EKONOMI BB BERSINAR
(Towards the prosperity of Batu Bara) and KOMBUR-
KOMBUR PILKADA BATUBARA 2018
Illocutionary Expressive acts
Propositional
coentent
An event has been experienced and
influenced the speaker's attitude
towards Chinese descendants.
Preparatory 1. Speaker has fact, reason and
evidence on Pc.
Sincerit
y
-
Essential Speaker denotes hatred
Based on the description above, one sub type of
expressive is found namely offensive. This sub-type
is based on the expression of the speaker's hatred for
Chinese descendants based on a state of experience,
information, and evidence that the speaker has. The
parameter is when the speech is spoken, speaker
insults hearer by expressing: i. Speakers' dislike
toward Chinese descendants, ii. and the speaker's
hatred on all Chinese activities. An explanation is as
follows: (4) Pukimak kau China (HS.04) ‘Fuck
you....’. Speech (4) is an offensive sub-type of
illocutionary expressive act. Through speech (4)
speaker shows his dislike and hatred towards Chinese
descendants.
4 CONCLUSIONS
Based on the results of research and discussion, it can
be concluded that hate speeches found in Facebook
group accounts KOMBUR- KOMBUR PILKADA
BATU BARA 2018 MENUJU MASYARAKAT
EKONOMI BB BERSINAR (Towards the prosperity
of Batu Bara) and KOMBUR-KOMBUR PILKADA
BATUBARA 2018 are classified into assertive,
directive and expressive. In addition, the thirteen
speeches analyzed have illocutionary forces that are
insulting, inciting and discriminating, especially on
Chinese descendants. This happened because one
candidate for Batu Bara local election is Chinese
descendant.
This study concludes that legal cases on hate
speech can be interpreted and solved linguistically
provided that fairness and social justice are the ends
to be achieved.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge that the present
research is supported by Ministry of Research and
Technology and Higher Education Republic of
Indonesia. The support is under research grant DRPM
of year 2018 contract number:
89/UN5.2.3.1/PPM/KP-DRPM/2018.
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