Abstract
This paper entitled “Types of Slang Words in Sausage Party Movie Script”is aimed to analyze the types of slang words and their types of meaning found in the Sausage Party movie script. The data were taken from internet on Tuesday September 5, 2017. In analyzing the types of slang words and the types of meaning used, descriptive qualitative method and theory proposed by Allan and Burridge (2006) that consists of five types and supporting theory proposed by Geoffrey Leech (1974) that consists of seven types were used. The result shows that there are fifty slang expressions analyzed in this study. The major slang used in this movie script is formed by two or more words and achieve it own meaning that are different from the source word. The slang meaning found in this study mostly express the implicit meaning of the expression. It can be concluded that Sausage Party movie script has a relatively exclusive language.
Highlights
Background of the StudySlang is one of the language choices used in informal context and normally used by people in a certain group or community
The movie script was chosen as the data source in this study.The movie script entitled Sausage Party has the slang word varieties in the dialogue and almost all off the dialogues in this movie consist of one or more slang words
Based on the previous discussion of analyzing slang words of Sausage party movie script, it can be concluded that the types of slang words which are based on the theory proposed by Allan and Burridge (2006),there are five types of slang words found in this study
Summary
Slang is one of the language choices used in informal context and normally used by people in a certain group or community. The use of slang is unsuitable for formal situation, but perfect for informal situation. According to Chapman (2007), slang is the nonlinguistic sort of language and that it mostly ignores the main aim of a language. The slang language itself is designed to be more casual and informal to make the conversation gobetter. Teenagers or people in a certain group or community are the ones who are mostly responsible for the occurrence of slang words. Slang words spread into worldwide due to many factors. People learn slang words from entertainment mediasuch as song, novel and movie
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