English Slang in “Gap Year” Movies Series

Rahilla Fanny Fanny

doi:10.32505/jl3t.v6i2.2205

Abstract

This research discussed about the slang words in Gap Year movie series and the word formation of the slang words which were found in the movie series. Slang itself was used by certain group or community, which could be produced by compounding, affixation, truncation, conversion, blending, neologism, etymology, borrowing, coinage, and multiple processes. This research used a qualitative method. In this research, the data were collected from Gap Year movie series in the form of British slangs.Then the data were checked by using dictionary, Oxford English Dictionaries Online and Etymology dictionaries online to make sure whether the data belonged to slang words or not and also to check the origin of the words. The data were also analyzed based on Plag and Yule’s theories in terms of etymology, borrowing, coinage, and multiple processes. After collecting the data, there were 30 slang words found in this movie series. The result of the research showed that the slangs were formed through compounding (8 data), affixation (5 data), truncation (1 data), blending (2 data), etymology (9 data), borrowing (1 data), coinage (2 data), and multiple process (2 data). Therefore, the most used of word formation process was etymology.

Highlights

This article is focused on the formation process slang words and their meaning
Slang words are analyzed based on word formation processes, about how the words change from the old to the new one
Slang is categorized as informal language, which according to Oxford English Dictionaries Online, is a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, more common in speech than writing, and typically restricted to a particular context or group of people

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Slang words are analyzed based on word formation processes, about how the words change from the old to the new one. It can be said that slang words are analyzed based on word formation processes, about how the words change from the old to the new one. Putra discussed that the meaning relations of slang words in the movie, based on semantic field. He found that, 55 data of metonymy from 110 data which as the biggest quantity of data of meaning relation. Widodo discussed about slang's meaning that has a change from the old to new meaning He elaborates it through semantic approach, same as the previous work, but he uses the theory that is proposed by Hollman. This research has the similar topic about finding the slang in the movie, the researcher provides the different findings in the aspect of classification of the slang words and the use of theory in classifying the findings

METHOD

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CONCLUSION