AN ANALYSIS OF SLANG WORDS IN SONG LYRICS ENTITLED “THE

LAZY SONG” BY BRUNO MARS

Muhammad Arga Sakti Indra Gunawan

J1E017033

MINISTRY OF RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER

EDUCATION
JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN UNIVERSITY
 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
PURWOKERTO
2019

AN ANALYSIS OF SLANG WORDS IN SONG LYRICS ENTITLED “THE

LAZY SONG” BY BRUNO MARS

Muhammad Arga Sakti Indra Gunawan

Department of Language Education

English Education Study Program, Jenderal Soedirman University

Gunawanarga57@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
The study concerned with discussing about slang word used in Bruno Mars
lyrics of song. The research design of this study is descriptive qualitative. In this
study, the theory of word-formation process by George Yule process( 1986) in his
book ”the study of language ” is used to analyze the formation process of each
slang word. In detail, this study statement to answer two research problem: (1)
what is the type of slang word used by Bruno Mars in lyrics, (2) what is the
dominant slang word found in Bruno Mars lyrics of song. The data were thought
document analysis, the research tried to find and identity the slang word in lyrics
by marking, finding and analyzing the slang word
The result shows that from 58 data for taken, not all process of slang word-
formation appear in the lyrics . five process of slang-word formation found in this
lyrics. on other hand, the process of slang word formation that are used in the
lyrics are clipping ( 140%), blending ( 120%), coinage ( 113,4%), borrowing
(6,7%), and acronym (6,7%). The most dominant slang word found in Bruno mars
lyrics of song is clipping. In this research, the clipped word that mostly appears in
the lyrics is word “cause” or “cuz”, for example a lyric “Cause you’re fucking
crazy rock’n’roll”. The term “Cause” or “Cuz” is considered as a clipped word
because originally it comes from word “Because” which is reduced to a shorter
form “Cuz”. slang word and clip the “g” alphabet in the last word, that is called “G
clipping
Keywords : sociolinguistics, slang word, Bruno mars, lyrics and song
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