Abstract:
This study concerns with the analysis of slang in Eminem’s song lyrics.
This study proposes a problem what are the characteristic of slang used in
Eminem’s song lyrics? This analysis is specially focused on slang language in
song lyrics. Hopefully, this study will be useful for students of English
Department, especially to help them understand slang language used in Eminem
song lyrics.
One use of slang is a simple way of circumventing social taboos. The
mainstream language tends to shy away from explicitly evoking certain realities.
Slang and also the informal forms of language, permits one to talk about these
realities in a special language stripped of a usual connotation in the normal
register. Slang vocabularies are particularly rich in certain domains, such as
sexuality, violence, crime, and drugs. Originally, certain slang designated the
speech of people involve in the criminal underworld, hooligans, bandits,
criminals, etc. therefore, their vocabulary carried very vulgar connotations, and
was strictly rejected by the speakers of “proper” language. Other groups, generally
those on the margins of mainstream society who were excluded or rejected by it,
developed their own slangs. Slang is a language based off of shortened words;
something like a contraction but used to shorten speech in a hasty manner.
This analysis used descriptive method because it is to describe the
meaning of slang language in Eminem song lyrics of slang language in them.
There are three song’s lyrics, there are Love Me, Say What You Say and Nail in
the Coffin.
From the data that have been analyzed, it was found the characteristics of
slang language in Eminem song lyrics are (a) Creativity means that slang
language has cleverness, imagination, productivity, and talent. (b) Flippant means
that slang language has irrelevant word of the contexts. (c) Fresh means that slang
language has familiar words, different words, up to date words. (d) Onomatopoeic
means that slang language has imitation words.
