English slang words used by young people on @collegemenfess Twitter account

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Khuluqi, M. Atmim (2023) English slang words used by young people on @collegemenfess Twitter account. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the slang words used by young people in the selected Twitter account @collegemenfess. The researcher focused on English slang only. This study aims to identify the types of English slang words by Partridge (2004), and the word formation process according to Yule (2006). So, there are two research problems: (1) What are the types of English slang are used by young Indonesian people in the @collegemenfess base account? (2) How do the English slang words in the @collegemenfess base account are formed? This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. The researcher collected data by looking for English slang words in tweets and replies within the account. Then, the researcher analyzed each collected data to determine the types of slang words and the word formation process. The findings of this study indicated that young people use four types of slang on @collegemenfess accounts: workmen's slang, such as "hectic, newbie", and "intermezzo", slang in publicity/advertising/internet (slang in publicity) such as "mutual, lmao", and "rep," slang in public schools and universities (slang in public school and university) such as "killer" and "afk ", and society slang (society slang) such as "swag, fomo", and "spill". In the research findings there are no traditional English slang (cockney), slang in bars/liquor establishments (public house slang), slang in art, slang in theatre, trademen's slang, slang in medicine, and soldiers' slang. Then, seven-word formation processes were found in slang words used by young people, including borrowing from other languages (borrowing) such as "anyway, stay", and "hectic", compounding such as "fanboy, trust issue", and "me time", blending words such as "menfess, muvon", and "newbie", clipping such as "narsis, rep", and "nder", conversions such as "slay, killer, and salty", acronym such as "lol, aka", and "pap", and multiple processes such as "bestie, red flag", and "ovt" . However, the researcher did not find the coinage, derivation and back-formation process.