A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF SLANG LANGUAGEIN AMERICAN GANGSTER MOVIE, DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT

ABSTRACT
Rinaldo Fatra. (2017). A Descriptive Analysis of Slang Languagein American
Gangster Movie, Directed by Ridley Scott. Undergraduate Thesis, English
Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,
Bengkulu University. Supervisor Drs. Barnabas Sembiring. M. Si. Co�Supervisor Indah Damayanti S.S., M.R.S
This research was descriptive qualitative research. It was aimed at
describing the types and form of slang, the contextual meaning and also the most
dominant slang in American Gangster movie. The data were collected through
reading the script and watching the movie. The researcher used Partridge theory in
Sari (2010) to analyze the types and form of slang. There are 622 lines on the
script of the film. The findings showed that there were three types of slang in the
movie. They were society slang, public house slang and workmen’s slang. The
researcher analyse the meaning of slang by using two dictionaries of slang, they
were NTC’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expression 3rd Edition
and The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.
The most dominant slang in the movie is the form of “fuck”. The form of fuck is
almost used by all of black people and the environment that close with drug,
crime and sex. Slang is also categorized as the informal language.
Keywords: Forms and Types of Slang, Meanings of Slang