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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Language
is one of essential things in human’s life. We need language to communicate each other and express our ideas.
There are two kinds of language; formal
language and informal language. Slang language is one of popular informal language. Slang can be described as
informal, nonstandard words or phrases.
Generally, communication is a process of transferring message from the speakers to the hearers; the speaker sends a
message, and the hearer is one who receives
the message. A slang word may has some different meanings, to define the meaning it is important to analyze it
based on the context.
Most people use slang and
colloquial in their daily conversation.
Colloquial is another informal
language, its diction stretches from almost slang to most semiformal (Willis and Klammer,
1981:184). In addition, Hudson in Arba’i (2007) states that when colloquial becomes
extremely informal it shades over slang.
Slang is widely used because media such as television, radio, magazine, and newspaper have popularized the use of
slang words in daily conversation.
Slang is not only popular in
informal daily conversations but also in songs and movies.
According to Encarta Dictionary,
slang is very casual speech or writing words,
expressions, and usages that are casual, playful replacement for standard ones, often short-lived, and are usually
considered unsuitable for formal contexts.
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Language of an exclusive group, a
form of language used by particular group of people, often deliberately created and used to
exclude people outside the group.
The reason of why using slang
language as the research because the researcher
often hears lot of slang words appearing in daily conversation whether it is spoken or written in informal situation.
Moreover, slang is one of language variety
that used by society especially among teenagers and adult. In America, slang commonly used by black people in slum
area since a long time ago. Slang increases
vastly through the world, many teenagers now tend to learn Slang language than formal English to improve their
daily conversation in English.
Slang refers to unconventional
words, so it is not appropriate to be spoken in informal situation, such in school,
university, and in the office. It is also not appropriate to be spoken with elder people or
our parents. Most slang words are vulgar,
rude, impolite, and it is often said as bad. But some slang words are acceptable in conversation, they usually more
polite than use the standard words.
For example the word “chubby”
which is considered as slang word is more polite than use the word “fat”.
In this study the researcher is
interested in doing research about Slang language in Bad Boys movie. The main
characters of this film starred by two policemen
those are black, they work in narcotics division. They way they overcome narcotics cases is very fascinating.
This movie is a kind of action comedy
movie. Most of the characters in this movie are spoken slang language as their conversations which are sound strange
for people who do not understand and .
use that language in their daily
conversations. Such as the word “twerp” which means a contemptible person.
It is important to make this
research because it can be used to obtain information about slang especially to found
out and to understand the meanings of slang
words in the movies. By means of these reasons, the researcher will try to help solving the problem by giving more
explanation in the field of linguistics study,
particularly in learning slang words. Many slang words are inappropriate in this movie. The researcher hopes that the
readers do not use and avoid such inappropriate
words of slang in daily conversation.
People considered using slang
language to create informal situation between
close friends. Slang is non-standard English; it has its own user from teenagers to adult people. They like to use
slang as their daily conversations whether
it’s spoken or written in informal situation. Slang is only used in relaxed situation to talk about the problem that is
not serious. It is not used in all situation and opportunity (Preston and Shuy in Chaer,
1993:105).
Slang usually used by certain
groups or communities as secret expression.
It means only limited people use
and understand slang. Slang is secret language, it is only understand by certain group, while
another group will not understand. In addition,
Kridalaksana (1984:181) says that slang is very informal language used by teenagers and certain group of people to
communicate internally, they should make
the new and fresh words to hide the meaning of words, therefore another group will not understand about it.
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Fromkin (1999:573) states that
slang is words used in casual speech often invented and spread by close knit social or
age groups. Therefore, slang is found in
spoken language not in written language. Most people are both speakers and writers use it when the situations in which we
write are more formal than the situations
in which we talk.
There are lots of slang words
whose meaning differ from those of formal English. It is sometimes hard to understand by
people those speak English as the secondary
language when they hear conversation in Slang language. Not all people understand Slang as well as black
people in America that use it for their daily
conversations. Slang is casual spoken language which is different from dialectical speech and jargon.
Sumarsono (2007:153) states that
slang is a particular and exclusive language,
it means slang is very secret language used by certain group of people.
He finds some characteristics in
slang words, such as; apocope by cut off the last part of the word, metathesis, creativity by
creating a new word and new meaning, the
use of acronym, use the existing word, and metaphor.
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