SOCIAL FACTORS AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS IN EXPRESSING ANGER

Abstract

Anger is the most tempted expression among other emotions. For this reason, expressing anger is possibly uttered by almost every person at least once in a lifetime, without any boundaries or limitations, to anyone as they wish. There are so many aspects of anger that we can analyze deeper by using some points of view: psychology, biology and even linguistics. In linguistics itself, the existence of anger in fact cannot be separated from the relation of language with other aspects. People will not be possibly angry for themselves without any trigger, interlocutor and other social environments. Hence, it is interesting to discuss the influences of social environments in expressing anger. The data were gathered from university students in Yogyakarta by using questionnaire as data collecting method. The gathered data were then analyzed and presented in order to make a qualitative result as data analyzing method. The result shows that social distance (intimacy) and participant (gender and age) of the respondents play significant role in deciding and determining their anger expression.

Keywords: emotion, expressing anger, social dimensions, social factors, sociolinguistics