This study describes about the slang language, slang meaning, and slang types
used on comments of Beauty and The Beast movie trailer video. It also describes about
word formation processes used on the comments.
The problem statements of this study are (1) what is slang, (2) what is the
meaning of slang, (3) what are the types of slang, and (4) what is word formation
process of slang that is used on comments at Beauty and the Beast movie fan page.
Objectives of this study are to find out the slang words and phrases, to know the literal
and figurative meaning of the slangs, to know the types of slangs, and to know the
words formation process of slangs used on comments at Beauty and the Beast movie
fan page.
This study is a descriptive analysis. For data collection, the reseacher searched
the data and captured the data, then the writer put the data into a folder. The researcher
analyzed the data descriptive qualitatively.
The results of study indicates that on the comments of Beauty and The Beast
movie trailer video, there are 35 slangs. Based on the types of slang, it was found that
there are 5 fresh and creative slangs, 7 flippant slangs, 5 imitative slangs, 13 acronym
slangs, and 7 clipping slangs. The most dominant type of slang is acronym slang. For
word formation process there are 5 blending processes, 7 clipping processes, and 13
acronym processes, but borrowing, multiple process, affixes, coinage, compounding,
back formation, and conversion process cannot be found on the comments. The most
dominant word formation process is acronym process.