THE ANALYSIS OF SLANG WORD FORMATION USED IN EASY A MOVIE

The study was deal with the word formation for forming slang found in the first 45 minutes of Easy A Movie. The objectives of study was to describe the meanings of those slang words found in the first 45 minutes of Easy A Movie and the types of Word Formation for forming them, also derived the dominant type of Word Formation appeared in Easy A Movie. The data were analyzed by identifying the utterances found in the dialogue spoken by all characters in Easy A Movie which is the script was downloaded from the internet. The findings show that there were seven types of word formation found in the first 45 minutes of Easy A Movie. The seven types were: a) Coinage (58,8%), b) Borrowing (0,9%), c) Compounding (0,9%), d) Clipping (30,6%), e) Conversion (3,2%), f) Derivation (3,2%) g) Multiple processes (2,4%). The dominant type of word formation for forming slang words used by characters in the first 45 minutes of Easy A Movie was Coinage 73 utterances (58,8%). The reason of Coinage became the dominant type for forming slang words in Easy A Movie was because the characters in Easy A Movie loved to make-up new words with new meanings or just re-used the old words contained of totally new meanings. The characters in Easy A Movie who were dominantly teenagers believed that it became more impressive to use those kinds of words.