THE MEANING OF SLANG LANGUAGE IN “22 JUMP STREET” MOVIE

he study was deal with the meaning of slang language used by the characters in 22 Jump Street Movie. The objectives of the study was to describe the meaning of the slang language used by the movie stars and the kinds of slang language they used, also explaining the reason why the characters used the slang language. The data were analyzed by identifying the utterances found in the movie script. The findings show that the meaning used by the characters are contextual meaning, depending on the situation or given context. There are four kinds of slang language but only 3 kinds of slang language used, they were Various in Slang, Abbreviate Word and Slang Used in America TV show. The reason of using slang was because the characters wanted to reduce the seriousness of the conversation since this was a comedy-action movie in which the comedy and action must be appeared at the same time.