AMERICAN SLANG IN
“HORRIBLE BOSSES 2”
MOVIE BY ANDERS AND JOHN MORRIS
LUH PUTU AMARA SUKMA DEWI
1201305110
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ARTS
UDAYANA UNIVERSITY
AMERICAN SLANG IN
“HORRIBLE BOSSES 2”
MOVIE BY ANDERS AND JOHN MORRIS
LUH PUTU AMARA SUKMA DEWI
1201305110
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ARTS
UDAYANA UNIVERSITY
AMERICAN SLANG IN
“HORRIBLE BOSSES 2”
MOVIE BY ANDERS AND JOHN MORRIS
LUH PUTU AMARA SUKMA DEWI
1201305110
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ARTS
UDAYANA UNIVERSITY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to dedicate my greatest gratitude to Ida Sang Hang
Widhi Wasa for the blessing, guidance, and protection so I am able to complete
this undergraduate thesis. It is a partial fulfillment of requirements for obtaining
the Scholar degree of the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Udayana
University. I take this oppurtinity to express my gratitude to the people who have
been instrumental in the sucessful completion this thesis. I found a lot of obstacles
during the writing of this thesis but, all have been overcome due to the advice,
assistance and supports from so many people.
In this occasion, I would like to express my high appreciate to Prof. Dr. Ni
Luh Sutjiati Beratha, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Arts, Udayana University.
Dr. Dra. Ida Ayu Made Puspani, M.Hum., as the head of English Departement for
their nice and fabulous lecturing. My great appreciation would also goes to A.A
Sagung Shanti Sari Dewi, S.S., M.Appl.Ling, my first supervisor who always very
generous to spare her busy times to me, for all her guidance, advice, suggestion,
and support, and Dr. Dra. Ni Wayan Sukarini, M.Hum., as my second supervisor
and also as my academic supervisor. Furthermore, my appreciation also intended
to administrative staffs of Faculty of Arts, Udayana University, who have assisted
me during academic years.
Finally I would like to thank my family especially to my father, Nyoman
Sukarma, S.E and my mother, Darmi for their financial supports, pray, and love.
without their support and nice love, I believe this study will never reach its final
shape.
Last but certainly not least, I would like to say my special thanks to my
friends, especially for Oming Sukanadi and Komang Agus Mahendra who always
help and support me every time and also all of SASING 12’ for nice relationship,
brotherhood, kindness, and love.
Denpasar, August 2016
ABSTRACT
The title of this study is American Slang in “Horrible Bosses 2” Movie by Anders and John Morris. The aims of the study are to identify the function of slang found in the movie titled Horrible Bosses 2. Besides, this study also analyzes the meaning of slang applied by the characters in the movie Horrible Bosses 2.
The data of this study were collected from the movie entitled The Horrible Bosses 2 as the data source. The theory used is the theory of language function proposed by Holmes (2010) was used to identify the function of slang. In addition, the theory of meaning proposed by Leech (1974) in order to analyze the meaning of slang. The documentation method was used to collect the data from the movie. The technique of collecting data was done in several steps; watching the movie, downloading and reading the movie script carefully to find out the slang words, finally the data were ready to analyze in related theory and qualitative method was used to analyze the data.
The result of the analysis shows that there are six functions of slang found in this study they are: expressive function, directive function, referential function, metalinguistic function, poetic function and phatic function. The expressive function is dominantly found in the utterances. Meanwhile, there are six meaning of slang found in this study, namely: conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, reflected meaning, stylistic meaning, affective meaning, collocative meaning and thematic meaning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.5.2. Method and Technique of Collecting Data ... 5
1.5.3. Method and Technique of Analyzing Data ... 5
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURES, CONCEPTS, AND THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK ... 6
2.1. Review of Literatures ... 6
2.2. Concepts ... 8
2.2.2. Concept of Slang ... 9
2.2.3. Concept of Meaning ... 10
2.3. Theoretical Framework ... 11
2.3.1. The Meaning of Slang ... 11
2.3.2. The Language Function of Slang ... 18
CHAPTER III: AMERICAN SLANG IN “HORRIBLE BOSSES 2” MOVIE BY ANDERS AND JOHN MORRIS... 22
3.1. The analysis of meaning and function in “The Horrible Bosses 2” ... 22
3.3.15 Chill out ... 43
3.3.16 Slow-mo ... 45
3.3.17 Lickety-split ... 46
3.3.18 OMG ... 47
3.3.19 Goddamn ... 49
3.3.20 Big whoop ... 51
3.3.21 Stockholm syndrome ... 52
3.3.22 Walkie-talkies ... 54
3.3.23 Go nuts ... 55
3.3.24 Sass-mouth ... 56
3.3.25 Fuck off ... 57
3.3.26 Kitties ... 59
3.3.27 Caboose ... 60
3.2 Data Presentation ... 62
3.2.1 Kind of slang, their functions and meanings ... 62
CHAPTER IV: CONCLUSION ... 65
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