Language is a tool of
communication it means as a tool of communication there are many variations in
the development styles of language one of them is slang that is becoming a new
style of language among young people, especially teenagers. Talking about slang
expressions can not be separated from linguistics because it is the scientific study of human language and
slang is part of linguistics. current
slang expressions is easy to find in
various media, one of them is movie. The usage of slang in the
movie is found in the dialogue script, one movie that use slang expressions is
Grown Ups 2 movie. The method that is used by the writer is descriptive
qualitative method which is collecting the data from watching movie, analyze
the data and give conclusions. After analyzing the slang expressions in the
movie script, the writer find two
findings.
First, there are two types of slang,
primary slang dude , gangsta and
fella and then is secondary slang
deadbeat, chicken and fugly. Second, type of slang mostly used in this
movie is primary slang.
Wanastra Edisi September 2014
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