Slang Words Used by Millennial Generation in Instagram

Abstract

Indonesia recognizes that Bahasa as a national language which has function as unity language for its society. In fact, the tendency of society especially millennial generation used slang in daily conversation is higher than used Bahasa itself. This study aims to analyse the phenomenon of slang words used by millennial generation in Instagram. The scope of this study is to investigate types of slang used by millennial generation in Instagram, how the meaning of slang words used by millennial generation in Instagram and why millennial generation used slang words in Instagram. Descriptive qualitative research was applied in this study and obtained the data from the discourse of 30 millennial generations in Instagram. The data was obtained from observation, interview and documentation. The result of the data showed that millennial generation used slang words in their communication in Instagram namely there were 31 slang words found in their caption in Instagram. These words contained five types of slang; fresh and creative; flippant; imitative; acronym; and clipping. The millennial generation used slang in Instagram because some reasons such as to address, to initiate relax conversation, to humiliate, to express impression and to show intimacy. Keywords: Slang, Types of slang, Reasons of slang, millennial generation

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“…Frequent or everyday words will often crop up in casual settings where abbreviations are well tolerated, because there is a lot of common ground for example terms like rents = parents, rad = radical, dis = disrespect, shot = good shot, sec = second, hellava = hell of a 'very', chill = chill out, bro = brother. It is in accordance with stated by Rezeki & Sagala (2019) clipping means slang word is made by deleting some part of longer word becomes a shorter form in the same meaning. The example is the use of word "exam" means "examination" and "cuz" means "because" which deleting some of longer words and change "s" word into "z".…”

“…Word based on Rezeki & Sagala (2019) that julid means iri hati, dengki or envy. That word usually stated by some one who tell the ugliness of others.…”

“…The explanation of slang types makes u as follows: (1) Fresh and Creative Allan & Burridge (2006) suggested extending the meaning of a near -synonym (thus reintroducing rarely used words into the basic vocabulary), borrowing from another language, or even by coining a new word. As supported by Rezeki & Sagala (2019) Fresh and Creative means that the slang has totally new vocabulary, informal variety, cleverness, imagination, and it also can be an up to date. It means that all slang words which are categorized as fresh and creative are not made by imitating, clipping, or else.…”

“…1. Flippant Flippant means slang is made by two words or more in which the word composed not correlated with the denotative meaning as stated by Rezeki & Sagala (2019). The example is "break a leg".…”

“…Acronym According to Allan & Burridge (2006) give the example such as lol (the acronym from 'laughing out loud'. Another study by Rezeki & Sagala (2019) An acronym is short for a combination of letters or syllables, or other parts that are written and pronounced as natural words or made by initials from a group of words or syllables and produce them as a new word.…”