Slang Words Used by the Characters in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

I Wayan Mulyawan,I Wayan Suardhana,Ni Made Dessy Ariyanti

doi:10.24843/jh.2018.v22.i04.p03

Abstract

The title of this study is Slang Words Used by The Characters in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. This study was conducted to identify the type and to analyze the function of slang words and phrases used by the characters in the movie “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” . The data of this study were collected from “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” movie script. There were sixty-seven slang words or phrases found in the “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” movie script. Documentation method was used to collect the data. This study used the descriptive-qualitative method to analyze the data. There were only eighteen slang words or phrases analyzed based on the theory proposed by Allan and Burridge (2006) about types and functions of slang words. There are five types of slang found in the data. They are fresh and creative which was the most type of slang, imitative, acronym, clipping, and flippant. So, all the types of slang based on the theory were found. For the functions, there were seven functions of slang word found in the data. They are the functions of showing intimacy, addressing, forming intimate atmosphere, expressing impression, revealing anger, humiliating and initiating relax conversation. The function of showing intimacy is the most function in using slang found in the data.

Highlights

Background of the StudySociolinguistics is a study about the relationship between language and society (Holmes, 1992)
It was used to describe the type of slang and the function in using slang found in the movie script entitled “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising”
Data were followed by the analysis discussion of the data which were presented based on the theory in words or sentences and in the form of paragraphs, first one for the type of slang and the second one for the function of slang

Summary

Introduction

Background of the StudySociolinguistics is a study about the relationship between language and society (Holmes, 1992). People having different social group tend to speak different social dialects in terms of words, pronunciation, and grammatical features. They will apply certain words in communication. According to Hartmann and Stork (1972), slang is a variety of speech characterized by newly coined and rapidly changing vocabulary, used by young or by social groups for „in-group‟ communication and tending to prevent understanding by the rest of the speech community It is created from habits or ideas of people in social group as the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. The script of the movie is used as the data source in which the slang words were found and analyzed in this study

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