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The objective of this research is to know the function of the usage of slang, especially slang used by the characters of Step Up 2 The Streets movie. The method of this research used descriptive qualitative method, the data were... more
The objective of this research is to know the function of the usage of slang, especially slang used by the characters of Step Up 2 The Streets movie. The method of this research used descriptive qualitative method, the data were collected through observation of the movie, analysis of slang in the dialogue, and analysis sociological properties of slang based on the dialogues. Defining the sociological properties of slang and analyzing the most frequent of properties used are taken from the theory of Mattiello. Analyzing the purposes of using slang in a community is taken from the theory of Victor and Dalzel. The result of this research are: (1) From 31 sociological properties are known, only 14 properties used in the movie, following: ‘Color’, ‘Efficiency’, ‘Group-Restriction’, ‘Informality’, ‘Subject-Restriction’, ‘Orality’, ‘Musicality’, ‘Aggressiveness’, ‘Unconventionality’, ‘Offenciveness’ ‘Desire to Impress’, ’Hybridism’, ‘Localism’, ‘Secrecy’, (2) The most frequent of soci...
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The objective of researchis to analyze affixation in The Script song lyric. The main purpose of this research is to know how affixation process happens in The Script song lyric “Hall of Fame”. The method used in this research... more
The objective of researchis to analyze affixation in The Script song lyric. The main purpose of this research is to know how affixation process happens in The Script song lyric “Hall of Fame”. The method used in this research isdescriptive qualitative method. The data used the text script oflyric. It will be an object to know how affixation process happens and what the influencescauses by affixation itself. The result of this analysis shows that affixation process dividedintwo types depends on affixes itself.