E-CLUE Journal of English Culture, Language, Literature and Education
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): E-CLUE: Journal of English Culture, Language, Literature, and Education

AN ANALYSIS OF SLANG IN GEEK CHARMING MOVIE

Ien Meise Lumendang (Universitas Negeri Manado)
Nurmin Samola (Universitas Negeri Manado)
Tirza Kumayas (Universitas Negeri Manado)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Dec 2020

Abstract

Sociolinguistics has a lot of aspects that can be researched. One of the aspects is slang. Slang is vocabulary that is used between people who belong to the same social group and who know each other well. Slang is very informal language. This research mainly discussed about slang in Geek Charming Movie. The purpose of this study is to identify the slangs and to describe the types of slang used in Geek Charming Movie. This study is limited to the main characters in the movie, they are Dylan Schoenfield and Josh Rosen.The  writer  used  descriptive qualitative  method  by using Bodgan and  Bilden (1992)   theory, which consists   of four steps: unitization, categorization, explanation, and interpretation. After analizing the data, it is found out that there are three types of slang used by Dylan Schoen field and Josh Rosen in Geek Charming Movie. The types of slang are public house slang, society slang, slangin public school and university.  Those  are  types  of  slang  according  to Eric Partridge (1950).It is important to study slang because the result of this research can be used for further research and help readers to get more knowledge about slang.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

e-clue

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

E-Clue Journal of English Culture, Language, Literature and Education focuses its publication on the issues around Teaching English, Linguistics, and Literature. The area of discussion may include: Teaching English Linguistics Literature Teaching and learning strategies Second Language Acquisition ...