Slang Words of Indonesian Artist Teenagers on Instagram

Abstract

This research observes about the slang words used by teenage artist in Indonesian by using the Yule George theory to the type of word formation process, and Leech G on the meaning of slang words used by Indonesian teenage artist to analyze the slang words. This research examines the types and meaning of slang words that many Indonesian teenage artist use to find out how the types and meaning of slang words are used. This research implies the theory of Yule George’s slang type and the meaning of Leech G’s slang which has several theories, including for the types of word formation process there are acronym, blending, clipping and coinage, while for the meaning of slang words there are denotative and connotative meaning. The methodology used in this research is a qualitative descriptive method. Researchers also applied Yule George and Leech G’s theory to this research to provide a better understanding of how the types and meanings of slang words that are widely used by Indonesian teenage artist. Researchers collected data from capturing slang words screens on the Instagram application. The result is that the acronym type of slang word formation process is more or often used by Indonesian teenage artist, while the meaning of slang words that appears and is used the most is the connotative meaning.Keywords: Slang Words, Indonesian Artist Teenagers, Instagram Application.