An Analysis of Slang Words Found In Another Cinderella Story Movie

Abstract

Slang is an unconventional words or phrases that express something new or something old in a new way. Slang words sometimes flippant, impolite, and improper. Slang language is not an official language or it is informal language although it is widely used for oral communication in many purposes, as many words quickly become outdated and obsolete because of trends. There is not formal classification in slang language, except perhaps that it is a subclass of the language. This study concerns with the analysis of slang in Another Cinderella Story Movie. There are two objectives dealing with the topic, first, to describe slang expressions and their meaning used in Another Cinderella Story movie, and the second, to find out the characteristic of slang used in Another Cinderella Story movie. This study used the descriptive qualitative research, because there was no treatment like in experimental research and the form of data is the words form. This study describes the meaning and characteristic of slang expression used in Another Cinderella Story movie. The result of the thesis showed that there were 55 slang words found in Another Cinderella Story movie. From this research, the researcher found that there four characteristics of slang, the first is creativity (47%) means that slang language has cleverness, imagination, productivity, and talent. Second is Flippant (26%) means that slang language has irrelevant word of the contexts. The third is Fresh (22%) means that slang language has familiar words, different words, up to date words. The last is Onomatopoeic (5%) means that slang language has imitation words. There are many aspects about slang language that can be analyzed by another researcher. The researcher suggests other researchers to conduct other researcher about this topic in different aspect. By studying slang words the researcher hope it can enrich the students vocabulary.