ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS USED IN “COUNTER-STRIKE 2” GAME’S ONLINE CHAT: SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

Online gaming has become a part of almost everyone on the internet, providing entertainment to people who loves playing video games with other people across the globe. Counter Strike 2 is one of online games that needs communication in order to coordinate with teammate effectively, yet there are some English expressions that normal people don’t use in their real life, making it difficult for new players to understand the experienced players are saying. This research’s goal was to interpret the meaning of the written English expressions used in the text chat and also to differentiate what kind of expressions used by the player to communicate, the method used was qualitative descriptive analysis, therefore the semantic approach was needed to carry out the research. The researcher found that the majority of the player used jargons frequently among other English expression, the reason was due to the simplicity and effectively saving time to type in the chat, hence the player could focus more on the game