AN ANALYSIS OF SLANG WORDS IN “DEADPOOL” MOVIE

NUR LATIFAH, SORAYA (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF SLANG WORDS IN “DEADPOOL” MOVIE. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study were analyzing the morphological aspect which focused on word formation process and Sociolinguistic aspect which focused on social factors and dimensions that influence the use of slang words in Deadpool movie. The types of slang used by the characters in Deadpool movie were mostly secondary slang, referred to the slang was used by people in their daily communication and those slang words were generally used in everyday talk. The method used in this study was descriptive qualitative. The data of this study were taken from Deadpool movie which were collected by downloading, reading, watching, capturing and listing. The data were analyzed by identification, classification, description, presentation and explanation. The data was analyzed based on theory of word formation (Plag, 2002) and (O’Grady and Guzman, 1996). The result showed there were some slang words formed through the word formation processes, those were: six affixation, one conversion, six clipping, ten blends, one abbreviation and nineteen compounds which influenced in the forming of slang words in Deadpool movie. Based on those word formation categories, the reasons of using slang were explained by theory of Sociolinguistic (Holmes, 2013) covering social factors and dimensions. The reasons which influenced the use of slang words were: participants, setting, topic and function, moreover there were social dimensions that used to analyze the use of slang which related to the social factors, those were: social distance, status and two functional scales. In sum, this study showed that there were many aspects of slang language which could be analyze more deeply to increase our knowledge and new vocabulary.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Slang, Word formation, Sociolinguistic aspects, Deadpool movie.
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited: 03 May 2018 00:28
Last Modified: 03 May 2018 00:28
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/3467

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