Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the type of use of slang language. The types of slangs were analyzed from “The Duff” movie. Theories used in this research were Paltridge (2004) about the types of slang language and Yanhong (2013) about the functions of slang. This study was conducted by using a descriptive qualitative method. The data was from a movie entitled “The Duff” in the year of 2015 with genre of teen or comedy. After conducting the analysis, this study showed that there were six slang languages from eleven type of slang language. They were society, cockney, workmen’s, public school and university, public house, and theater. Society was found as the most dominant slang language with society with 41 data (54,6%), public house with 20 data (26,6%), workmen’s with 6 data (8 %), cockney with 5 data (6,6%), theater with 2 data(2,6%), and public school and university with 1 data (1,3%). Finally, the researcher hopes that this study will be useful for the future improvement of studying literature, especially about slang language
Highlights
In our environment, if we want to communicate each other, we need to use language as the tool to express our feeling, thoughts, or ideas
Theories used in this research were Paltridge (2004) about the types of slang language and Yanhong (2013) about the functions of slang
The data were from a movie entitled “The Duff” in the year of 2015 with a genre of teen or comedy
Summary
If we want to communicate each other, we need to use language as the tool to express our feeling, thoughts, or ideas. Language is the way we want to share something with others. A lot of kinds of language in the world but as we know English is the one language that to be used as an international language when people want to go abroad they can use English as their tool to communicate with each other without hesitation. English becomes the language of standardization for many countries to become their national language. It has been divided into two parts, standard English and Non-standard English.
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