1. Background of the Study
Language as a means of communication that has the main function of the language is to deliver of a message or meaning by someone to others. Changes in language can occur not just development and expansion, the decline of the setback in line with changes experienced by the community. The occurrence of a change of language is difficult to observe, because that change, has become the essential nature of language.
Therefore, language is related into society and culture who used the language as a system to communicate. According to Wardaugh (2006:11)‘Sociolinguistics is the study of the social uses of language, and the most productive studies in the four decades of sociolinguistic research have emanated from determining the
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He identified about this study found that the meaning of each slang word and phrase in this movie is not only based on dictionaries but also based on the context of situation and the participants when the slang is used. Documentation method was used to collect the data and then qualitatively described based on the theory Allan and Burridge who divided the types of slang into five types such as Fresh and Creative, Flippant, Imitative, Acronym, and Clipping. The data was taken from the movie script of Deadpool Movie Directed by Tim Miller (2016). The results of the analysis shows that there were fourteen literal meaning and eighteen, figurative meaning. Besides, slang words and phrases that found are mostly used in informal situation by people who know each other well. Then every slang word and phrase has different meaning either literally or figuratively. His thesis is good, because he conducting this topic in different aspect such as to compare the usage between English and American in using the slang language. The purpose of comparing the usage between English and American is to enrich the slang
Linguistics Being supposedly made up on the spot, Noah S. Sweat did not have time to compose an eloquent speech about a controversial topic. He instead spoke a purely unfactual and highly descriptive banter using doublespeak to voice his opinion of whiskey. Both sides of his argument include impactual adjectives to describe the drink. Or as Mr. Sweat would say on line 6, “the devil’s brew,” or on line 12, “the philosophic wine”. Each side of his argument is entirely one sentence long, implying that he emotionally fuels his speech as he works out his thoughts with the audience as one thought flows to the other.
In “How ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ Changed My Life”, Ethan Gilsdorf compares the differences in nerd culture today and when he was a young adult. The purpose of this article is to analyse how Dungeons and Dragons and, by extention, games in general have changed over the years. He writes to other old D&D players and newer players, showing how the game has and hasn’t changed over the years. The genre is part narrative, part analysis, switching between the two to better explain his point. Gilsdorf has uses his personal experience to help the reader understand the differences in D&D from over twenty years ago and the game now.
Language is used to convey a message as well as connect people to a particular culture or ethnicity he or she identifies with. People who share the same language share a bond and pass their history through language. In chapter one of The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom Joanne Kilgour Dowdy speak about growing up in Trinidad and her mother insisting on her speaking in the colonizer's language rather than her native Trinidadian language. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy felt as if her identity was being pushed to the side when she was forced to speak “Colonized English” when she was at school or around the social elite of her community, and felt ridiculed from her peers for speaking proper as if she was white or of the elite social class. Dowdy major concern was how to have the freedom to go back and forth from home, language to the public language without feeling judged from both sides of her
In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the author, uses an array of figurative language in her writing. She uses similes, idioms, and hyperboles in her book to make them interesting and intriguing. Similes help compare scenarios, idioms interpret a meaning by giving an object a role, and hyperboles exaggerate an action. Figurative language captures the reader's attention and gives sensory detail.
Racial profiling is still evident in the society so rappers of the modern era still throw indirect insults at cops through songs. On the last line he pertains to parking a car which is ‘hot’ which is slang for stolen. From his language we can see that he tries to hype up himself for the people to see the lavish lifestyle he has. The constant boasting ends up in people wanting to be like him and end up actually stealing cars and buying prostitutes which is frowned upon in the
Some people make their song or any writing effective by using dictation or foul language. In the song “Hold up”, Beyoncé uses foul language to appeal to pathos/anger by saying, "I'm gonna f*** me up a b****", while holding a bat. In the song “Don’t hurt yourself” ft. Jack White, Beyoncé uses foul language to appeal to pathos/anger by saying, “Who the f*** do you think I am? You ain’t married to no average b****, boy, You can watch my fat a** twist, boy, as I bounce to the next d*** boy”. This appeal to pathos because she’s telling her man that if he keeps messing up, he can easily be replaced and this is similar to the message in her single
“A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don 't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart.
Society is constantly progressing to improvement, and language can reflect that drastically (Bulletin). To conclude, slang from the 1920s has impacted language used in the current era. While times and motivations have changed, the vibrant meaning of slang words and the reasons behind their use stays the same. Social liberation, freedom, relaxation, music, and political activism will always spawn interesting words in every generation, and common place terms will gain new meaning in the world of tomorrow.
(Tan 84). Peoples' communicating leads to the spread of different ideas. Language connects societies figuratively and literally. Culture and language influence people extensively which allow people to be susceptible to miscommunication when a barrier is too vast. Familial relationships disrupt from language barriers.
You take the reality of the world or the “ bad,” you ball it around with the latest slang, trends and
Outsourced is made a movie in 2006, a romantic comedy film. The movie was written by George Wing and John Jeffcoat. It was directed by John Jeffcoat. The movie tells about the changing life of an American man Todd Anderson after he traveled to India. We can see that the importance of slangs in communication in the movie.
Nadsat, being made up of British slang mixed with Russian vocabulary, suggests influences of communism to the conservative ruling class (Sumner). While nobody outside of the teenage world can understand the meaning of the words themselves, the ideas of opposition and hostility to authority are still conveyed by the language, allowing the gap between generations to widen. Dr. Brodsky even refers to nadsat as “the dialect of the tribe” (Burgess 124), suggesting that the speakers of the language are a separate entity from the rest of civilized society. But this description of a teen “tribe” can also be used to invoke a sense that the teen community is tight knit and familial.
SLANG 3 The Effect of slang on the English language The records show slang was first used around the 16th Century, but this is not certain, as it more of a spoken language and so it could have been much earlier. At this time people created new words as the English vocabulary was a lot smaller than it is today and so people felt the need to invent new words to express themselves. Nowadays slang is used much more frequently, with the influence of technology having a great effect on the use of slang. Some people think it has a positive effect on the English language, while others think it is having a negative effect.
Because of that, each community in the society has their own language and variety in having their communication. According to (Ivas Peter, 1995:80) state, that sociolinguistics is the science that studies of characteristic and function of the language variety the relationship between language with the characteristic and function in the language society. In communication in the society, there are many language variations such as register, slang, jargon, dialect, and socialist. Jargon /ˈdʒɑːɡ(ə)n/is one of the language variations in sociolinguistics and special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand (oxford dictionary). Jargon is the special language that used in the certain field in the society.
The speech pattern has its definite form and therefore its functional features are strictly correlated with the nature social codes. Thus sociolinguistics, as an interdisciplinary study of language use, attempts to show the relationship between language and