An Analysis Of Slang Words Found in Avril Lavigne’s Song Lyrics

Abstract

The title of this research is “An Analysis of Slang Words Found in Avril Lavigne Song lyrics”, This Research aims to answer two research problems: (1). What are the types of slang words found in Avril Lavigne song lyrics, (2). What are the meaning of slang words found in Avril Lavigne song lyrics. The data in this research are the lyrics of the songs by Avril Lavigne. In this research used theory from Mattiello (2008) in her book entitled “An Introduction to English Slang” was used to analyze the types of slang words. Theory by Leech’s (1981) was used to analyzing and explain types of slang words that are used in Avril Lavigne song lyrics. The data were song lyrics analysis, the research tried to find and identify the slang word in lyrics by finding, marking, analyzing, and classifying the data according to the types of slang words and types of meaning. Finally, based on the data analysis, it was found that slang can be classified as several types such as compounding, prefixation, conversion, acronym, blending, clipping and variation. Furthermore, there were Five types of meaning found in this research, namely conceptual meaning, collocative meaning, affective meaning, reflective meaning, and social meaning.