An Analysis of Slang Words That Used by lnstagram Account Plesbol

Saputra, Leo (2019) An Analysis of Slang Words That Used by lnstagram Account Plesbol. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Slang is a language used by a specific group of people and usually used in an informal situation. Slang is often found in daily conversation and social media such as Instagram. There are a number of Instagram which often contains many slang words. One of them is Plesbol. It is an Instagram account that contained the various term of football and usually used slang words in its captions. This study aims to find out the types and the meaning of slang words used by Plesbol. This research used Mattiello's (2008, p.72) theories about types of slang words. This study is descriptive research. The data were taken from captions of photos that have been uploaded by Plesbol from August until December 2018. The result showed that from 498 data that have been collected, there were nine types of slang that have been found from fifteen types of Elissa Mattiello' s slangs. They are acronym, blending, clipping, compounding, prefixation, reduplicative, reversed form, variation, and word manufacture and fanciful formation with compounding is the most dominant slang with 25.25%. It means that more than fifty percent of Mattiello' s Slang found in Plesbol

Item Type: Thesis (Skripsi)
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris - S1
Depositing User: Sudia Ajjronisa S.Sos.
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2019 01:48
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2019 01:48
URI: http://repository.unp.ac.id/id/eprint/23635

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