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–s which is possession maker or plural maker Akmadjian, Demers, Farmer Harnish, 2010. Akmadjian,
Demers, Farmer, and Harnish 2010 reveals that verb inflectional suffixes consists of
–s to indicate present tense; -ed as past tense maker; -ing to show progressive, and -en or
–ed to as the past participle markers. Akmadjian, Demers, Farmer, and Harnish 2010 reveal that adjective inflectional suffixes consists of
suffix –er which is used to show comparative e.g. smaller, bigger, taller, lower,
cheaper and suffix –est which is employed to indicate superlative e.g smallest,
biggest, tallest, lowest and cheapest. Generally, the adjective inflectional affix is usually attached to adjectives with single syllable. Moreover, suffix
–er and –est can be used in the adjectives with two syllables and
–y as the last letter e.g. heavy, heavier, heaviest
B. Theoretical Framework
This part describes the theories that support the analysis process of the study. The theories build borders in order to make the clear boundaries of what
theories are applied in the analysis. They are related to the nature of slang and word-formation processes.
Related to the nature of English slang, the writer employs previous studies of slang. The writer uses e-books and journals, mostly, from Mattiello 2008,
Coleman 2012, Eble 1996, and Dumas and Lighter 1978 and other linguists.
72 The use of those theories is for building same perception among the writer and the
readers related the nature of slang. The writer uses theory related slang characteristics which are proposed by Dumas and Lighter 1978 to determine
slang words before analyzing word-formation processes. The writer provides the theory of language variation as well. The theory is
used to depict how slang differs to the standard variation. In addition, it describes how British slang is distinct to other English slang variation.
To answer the research question “what types of word-formation are used to form slang in The Inbetweeners television series
?” The writer chooses word- formation theories which are proposed by Akmadjian, Demers, Farmer, and
Harnish 2010 also O‟Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller 2010.
After the morphological theories are examined carefully, it is found numbers of word-formation processes. The writer notes there are 24 type of word-
formation, which is classified into neologism, derivational, changing the meaning of the words and inflection. The writer uses those word-formations because the
writer sees almost all of those word-formation processes engage to lexical change process. Thus, the writer believed the processes are able to be used to analyze
word-formation in English slang.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The third chapter will be divided into five parts. It includes method, subject of this study, instruments and data gathering technique, data analysis
technique, and research procedure. Those parts discuss the steps that are taken in this study
A. Research Method
This part describes the nature of the study and the method that is implemented in this research. This research intends to find the word-formation
processes used in English slang which are applied in The Inbetweeners television series and discusses its processes. Therefore, this research can be identified as a
morphological study. Katamba 1994 reveals that “morphology is a study of
word-formation and word- structure” p.3.
The writer implemented a qualitative method in this morphological research. Qualitative research may be used to conduct a linguistic study. For
example, it implemented in discourse analysis which is a part of linguistics study Litosseliti, 2010. Therefore, the writer employed qualitative method in this
morphological study because morphology is a branch of linguistics study. Qualitative method is a research which focuses on the phenomena that
occur in the natural settings or the real world and involves studying those
