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2022•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This thesis is entitled Analysis of Slang Words Found in the Best Song Lyrics Vol.1 by Ed Sheeran. This study discusses the slang words used in Ed Sheeran's song lyrics. The research design of this research is descriptive qualitative. In this study, the author uses the theory of slang words by Pertridge (2004:204) and the word formation process by Yule (1986) in his book "study of language" is used to analyze the process of forming each slang word. In detail, this research statement answers two research problems: (1) what types of slang words are used by Ed Sheeran in the lyrics, (2) what are the types of word formation. This research tries to find and identify slang words in Ed Sheeran's song lyrics,tagging, and analyzing, slang words. The results showed that there were two types of words slang in addition to those found, namely : society slang, public house slang.And there are five slang words found in the lyrics of the song are: wanna, yeah, man, ain't,gonna, baby. While from the types of words formation, there are six types of word formation found in the song lyrics: compounding, blending, clipping, backformantion, derivation, prefixes and suffix. “cuz”, for example the lyrics “Because we are just kids when we fall in love”. The term "Cause" or "Cuz" is considered a truncated word because it originally came from the word "Because" which was reduced to the shorter form "Cuz". slang words and clippings of the alphabet “g” in the last word, which is called “G clipping.
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2021•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The writer conducted the research entitled “An Analysis on Slang Words Used in Whatsapp by the Group Members of the Ten Semester Students of Artha Wacana Christian University”.The research problems of this study were what are the types of slang words found in whatsapp by the group members of the ten semester students and what are the reasons of group members whatsapp chat using slang words?. The aims of this study were to categorize the types of slang found in whatsApp and to explain the reason of slang in WhatsApp. The method of this research was a descriptive qualitative method.The subjects of this research were the English students of Class F in academic year 2015. The instrument of this research were questionnaire and documentation.The result of this research found that there are two types of slang words, in-group slang and common slang. There are 17 slang words of in-group slang, they are Dun, G’monin, Abt, Idk, R u, Dunno, IC, Ofc, Ma, Bombed, Freaking funny, Crash it away, Freak out, Cz, Ya, Temme, Gotcha, Yup, Lmao, Gee. And there are 41 slang words of common slang, they are Guys, Gws, Kay, Wht, Otw, pissed, Hoax, Kinda, Wanna, Imma, Lol, Nope, Buddy, Hbd, Bro, Wth, Prank, Btw, Hip, Fatty, Whaddya, Yikes, X-mass, Omg, Sis, Lemme, Shit, Whacha, Hang around, Kitsch, Mom, Fav, Babe, Wtf, Thx, Nite, Congrat, Datz. The most dominant reason of using slang was 1) Just for fun; 2) To be different; 3) to enrich the language; 4) to reduce the excessive seriousness of a conversation
