Word formation in Slang Word Meanings in caption on @Lambe_Turah Instagram Account

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Sheryllia, Elvina (2019) Word formation in Slang Word Meanings in caption on @Lambe_Turah Instagram Account. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the meaning of slang word and how those slang words are formed with word formation. The data is gained from slang words that typed on caption of @lambe_turah instagram account. This social media account mostly contains offensive words. Thus the words is made up as slang words so the only several people know it. The researcher analyzed the data by the meaning and word formation. She collected the slang words which typed on caption of @lambe_turah instagram account posts during January 2018. Then she categorized the slang words where they belong to word formation. The researcher used George Yule’s theory to support her analysis. And also the writer read the comments from another accounts in every post to support detail information to gain more explanation about slang words. In this research, the researcher applied descriptive qualitative design. Thus, she found total 9 slang words in her data collection. The researcher made herself as an instrument is used to look for data, analysed, and concluded by herself. The writer choosed 9 slang words to be analyzed in the meaning by its context and word formation. The data are My Hubby, Gimmick, Baby, Hoax, Selfie, Kepo, Netizen, Unch-Unch, DM. The word formation process that formed slang words that found as data are Borrowing, Coinage, Acronym, Blending, and Reduplication.