IJOLTL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
Vol. 6 No. 3 (2021): September

Sociocultural Aspects of Transgender Slang

Surana, Surana (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2021

Abstract

This study examines the sociocultural aspects of waria’s slang. Considering the current problems, the descriptive method was used to describe the results of this study. The object of this study is the various language used by transgenders in their daily communication. The data were collected, categorized, analyzed, and the results were presented in the form of a description along with examples. Sociocultural aspects that exist in waria’s slang can be the sociological, sociolinguistics, as well as cultural aspects of the slang emergence among transgenders. Sociological aspects include the use of slang among transgenders inclusively. Those aspects are the use of speech units in the form of words, phrases, sentences, and discourses. Furthermore, the establishments of waria’s slang are as follows: the sounds game, permutation, a play, replacements, additions, acronyms, and analogies. While the cultural aspects include waria’s slang function within the culture among the society members, which for: humoring, bullying, unifying, and as a communication tool.

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ijoltl

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

IJOLTL invites original manuscripts in the fields of language, language teaching, linguistics, and applied linguistics. Although articles are written in English, the IJOLTL welcomes studies dealing with the teaching of languages other than English as well. Research on culture of various perspectives ...