The meanings and coherence of visual images and verbal texts on @9gag’s Instagram.

This thesis focuses on analyzing an image and verbal text in social media posts, namely Instagram using an account from @9gag. This study aims to investigate visual meaning of images and coherence between visual images and verbal texts. In this study the researcher answeres the problems in this study, as follows, (1) What are the visual meanings of the images? (2) In what way(s) are the visual images coherent with the verbal texts on @9gag Instagram posts?. Data were analyzed using several modes; pictures and verbal text in one discourse. The data were analyzed with theory of Representational Meaning from Kress & Lauween's (2011) using the Conceptual and Narrative Representation classifications. Data is managed by creating tables to analyze those meaning based on the process. After finding the unified visual meaning, then using the discourse coherence theory by Baryadi (2002) to look for coherence between the image and verbal text in the image and in the post caption. This study used a descriptive method. The data were analyzed through analysis, describing, and making a complete conclusion from the visual images obtained from the posts as the significance of this research. First the data was found on instagram by searchingfor account@9gag. Second, the image analyzed by creating two different tables with each table having a sub-process which are Conceptual and Narative Representation. Finally, the data are grouped according to their meaning and coherence. The results of the study showed that there were 10 images included in the Conceptual Representation and 10 images included in the Narrative Representation. The data are those that show visual meanings about comparison of images, a plot of a story, emotional expressions, real life events.. The coherence between images and verbal text shows that there are 8 data indicating logical coherence, 4 data perian coherence, 6 data chronological coherence, and 2 data stimulus-response. Some verbal texts tend to function as descriptions of images, become conversational texts, narrate an event in the image, and connect images to one another.