Abstract
This study is entitled “The Analysis of American Slang Found in The Movie Script “The Wolf of Wall Street””. The aims of this study are to find out whether primary and secondary slang was used by the characters in movie script titled “The Wolf of Wall Street”, to find out the types and also the meaning of the slang word that used by the characters based on the context of the situation. Documentary method was used to collect the data and then qualitatively described base on the theory of Chapman (2007) who divided the types of slang into primary and secondary slang. This study also uses the theory of Leech (198i) who classified the types of meaning into seven types which are conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning, collocative meaning, and thematic meaning. From the analysis, it can be concluded that primary slang was mostly found and used by the characters in the movie, but nevertheless there are several secondary slang used by the characters in “The Wolf of Wall Street” movie script due to a matter of stylistics choice and also used to describe things in a secret way. Among the seven types of meaning, there are only conceptual meaning, reflected meaning, and affective meaning. The meaning behind each slang word in “The Wolf of Wall Street” movie script are depend on the context in which slang words are used.
Highlights
Background of the StudySlang is considered a very informal word or expression that is commonly used in our everyday conversation
The data analysis in this study is divided into two parts, the first part is analizing the context of the situation of the dialogue, and the second one is analyzing the type and meaning of American Slang uttered by the character in the movie script “The Wolf of Wall Street”
After analyzing the types and the types of meaning of slang based on the context of situation of the movie script “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Terence Winter in the previous chapter, some conclusions can be made such as the kinds or the types of the American slang used in the movie script “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Terence Winteris generally primary slang
Summary
Slang is considered a very informal word or expression that is commonly used in our everyday conversation. Even though the use of slang is really popular nowadays, in the past slang was often associated with vulgar words that wereconsidered nonstandard language. Slang is the thing that everybody can recognize and nobody can define it. The use of slang by the teenagers is still being counted on for innovation on creating new slang. The use of slang is really popular and appears anytime and in all languages. It is interesting to do research in slang because it will give additional information on new word or speech in English and the true meaning of slang used in movie. Slang will be more interesting when studied further
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