An analysis of words formation process in movie “After (2019)”
Keywords:
slang; film; wordAbstract
In today’s society, slang terms are often used in communication. Slang is a colloquial form of language used to shorten and simplify communication. The purpose of this study is to analyze the slang words contained in a movie “After” by Anna Todd (2019). This research utilizes basic class slang words proposed by Chapman (2007: 8). Approach used in this research is a qualitative method with the aim of clarifying the data used and research problems. The information is collected by listening, watching and recording dialogue from the film, watching them for slang terms, then taking the subtitle transcript, and after that analyzing what words were included in the word formation process. The results of this study indicate there are 54 main slang words found in 1 hour 45 minute duration in a film. In this study can be found 30 cliticization, 2 clipping, 7 compounding, 3 blending, 4 onomatopoeia, 1 conversion, 2 coinage, and 3 another slang.
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