THE ADULTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF SLANG WORDS IN A TEENAGE MAGAZINE

Sulistiani, Sulistiani (2007) THE ADULTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF SLANG WORDS IN A TEENAGE MAGAZINE. Other thesis, PROGDI FAKULTAS SASTRA.

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Abstract

Slang is viewed as the most popular language in the society. It is identical with young generation’s language, although there are few of them do not understand about it. In addition, people (especially adults) find difficulty in understanding the slang words. This study is conducted to see how well respondents from different age groups understand the slang words used in this study and the factors that influence their understanding. There are forty six slang words used in this study. The questionnaires are distributed to 60 respondents to find out their understanding of newlyemerged words and the factors that influence their understanding. Then, these slang words are analyzed by using the meaning of the words in kamus bahasa gaul. The writer compares the respondents’ understanding of the slang words from three different age groups in the society. The result of this study shows the difference understanding of respondent’s from different age groups and the factor which influences the understanding. The percentage of teenager respondents is 82.6%. It means they have very good understanding of slang words. Young adult respondents understand 95.65% slang words. They also have very good understanding of the slang words. The rest age groups respondents is adult. The percentage of their understanding of the slang words is 80.43%. So, both teenager and young adult respondent have better understanding than adult respondents. The factor that influences the respondent’s understanding is age. Both educational background and job are not become the factors that influence respondents’ understanding of slang words which is used in the questionnaires in this study.

Item Type:	Thesis (Other)
Subjects:	800 Literature > 820 English and Old English literatures
Divisions:	Faculty of Language and Art > Department of English Literature
Depositing User:	Mrs. Frederika Kristin
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2015 01:54
Last Modified:	28 Sep 2015 01:54
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/3751

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