AN ANALYSIS ON SLANG WORDS USED IN BRUNO MARS’S LYRICS SONGS

Jalo, Elvasani Regina (2021) AN ANALYSIS ON SLANG WORDS USED IN BRUNO MARS’S LYRICS SONGS. Undergraduate thesis, Univrsitas Timor.

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Abstract

Jalo, Elvasani Regina. 2021. This study entitled An Analysis of Slang Words Used in Bruno Mars’s lyrics songs. Timor University. Main Advisor (1) Imanuel Kamlasi S.Pd. M.Pd. and Associate Advisor (2) Febronia Lasi S.Pd, M.Ed. Slang is a language structure that envolved in modern which is the language that young people prefer to used, nowdays the musicians often used slang in their songs. In this case the researcher discusess the usage of slang words determind in songs, specially in Buno Mars’s lyrics songs. This studies entitled “ An Analysis on Slang words used in Bruno Mars’s lyrics songs. To reveal the problem in this research the researcher used Descriptive qualitative method. The observed used Gorgle Yule (1986) theory in his book with the title “The study of language”. To collecting the data the researcher looking the lyrics songs through Bruno Mars on internet, after that the researcher amassed the slang word was found in lyrics, the next step was codyfication the words, tabulating the data and the last find the types of slang and the dominant slang words found in Bruno Mars’s lyrics songs. The end result showed that not all slang word formation appear within the lyrics but only five types of slang words. There are Acronym (26%) Blending(66%), Borrowing (6,6%), Clipping ( 93%), Coinage (53%). The most dominant slang word was determined in Bruno Mars’s lyrics songs is Clipping. The clipped word mostly appears in the word “ cuz” or “cause” for example in the lyric “ Cause today I swear I’m not doing anything”. The word “cause” originally coming from the word “Because” that is why “ cause” called clipping.

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