Abstract
The relationship between humans and language is referred to as sociolinguistic. The language used by humans is as diverse as the variety of formal language used when someone has a higher level or when in certain formal events, then there is a variety of casual language or familiar variety, which is also called slang. The object of his research is the novel "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. Therefore, the researcher tries to analyze the types of slang and what meanings are used by the author in the book by using theory from Allan and Burridge, and theory from Leech. The results of the study found that the most dominant type used by the author was the Fresh Creative type because the researcher found a lot of new words in this novel. While, the classification of the type of meaning is the most dominant type found in this novel, namely stylistic meaning because this type is heavily influenced by the social environment.
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