STATUS, BENTUK, DAN FUNGSI INTERJEKSI DALAM TUTUR LISAN LINTAS GENRE DI YOUTUBE

Abstract

Interjections are lexical units that express emotions, attitudes, or spontaneous reactions and can stand alone as independent utterances. In digital spoken language, primary interjections are intermingled with slang, hortatives, religious expressions, and code-mixing; therefore, the scope of the study must be categorically defined before their forms and functions can be analyzed. This study aims to describe (1) the categorical status of interjections as core or peripheral, (2) primary, secondary, and interjectional phrase forms, and (3) the functions of interjections according to Ameka, with Alwi’s subtypes limited to expressive-emotive functions. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach. The data consist of interjection tokens from twelve videos from 2026 on the channels Tekotok, Windah Basudara, Nihongo Mantappu, and Deddy Corbuzier. The researcher collected data using the observe-and-record technique, then filtered it so that only tokens that met the analysis criteria were retained. The findings indicate that core interjections consist of primary exclamations such as “eh,” “wah,” “aduh,” and “wow,” while peripheral interjections consist of conversions, slang, hortatives, religious expressions, or code-mixed utterances, such as “anjay,” “gila,” “yuk,” “alhamdulillah,” and “oh my God.” Primary forms appear to be more ready-to-use, whereas secondary forms can be understood as the result of function shifts, and interjectional phrases as units that are uttered in their entirety. The research findings indicate four functions—expressive-emotive, expressive-cognitive, conative, and phatic—which do not appear to be one-to-one tied to specific lemmas. Admiration or satisfaction appears to be the most dominant in the corpus, while “wah,” “eh,” “aduh,” “yuk,” and “anjay” can shift functions depending on the context of the token. These findings suggest that digital spoken interjections need to be categorized, analyzed at the primary–secondary–phrase level, and interpreted contextually.