AICLL: ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Vol 1, No 1: AICLL April 2018

DIRTY WORDS IN MIKI YOSHIKAWA’S YANKI-KUN TO MEGANE-CHAN COMIC (REVIEW OF LEXICAL FORM)

Abdul Gapur (Linguistics Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara)
Rudy Dermawan (Linguistics Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 Apr 2018

Abstract

Dirty words are considered as a part of language phenomenon. They have their own forms and categories. This research discusses the Japanese dirty words which is contained in Miki Yoshikawa’s Yanki-kun to Megane-chan comic. it is aimed to describe lexical form in Miki Yoshikawa’s Yanki-kun to Megane-chan comic. This research utilizes descriptive qualitative method. The data research is obtained dirty words in Comic Yanki-kun to Megane-chan comic volume 1. In analyzing the data, theory of Fargo (2007) and Jay (1992) are used to describe lexical form of dirty words. The result of this research reveals that those are five categories out of ten found. There are 9,5% of obscenity, 40% of slang, 3% crusing, 27% of epithets, and 20,5% of scatology. This shows that slang and Epithets are the most used in Miki Yoshikawa’s Yanki-kun to Megane-chan volume 1 comic.

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aicll

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Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL) is a scientific forum organised by the Faculty of Literature in collaboration with Sastra UISU Press, Islamic University of North Sumatra, Medan. AICLL invites researchers, educators, academicians, stakeholders, practitioners, ...