4 make study about morphology is easier for them because slang is still a part of
English. Third, studying English slang word-formation processes may lead to in- depth study related to slang in sociolinguistics.
To conduct this study the writer chooses The Inbetweeners television series. The Inbetweeners is a British situation comedy. The story is about a
friendship of William McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland, and Simon Cooper. They are unpopular students of Rudge Park Comprehension School. They
try to be cool and popular. The boys are obsessed to have sexual experiences with girls.
The Inbetweeners television series show a lot of cases of the use of slang. In this film, slang words are often used by the teenage characters. The case is
mainly found in the William ‟s, Jay‟s, Neil‟s, and Simon‟s utterances who are
sixteen year old boy. It is in line with Monaghan, Goodman, and Robinson 2012 who state that the teenagers have a lot of slang vocabulary and often apply it in
their speech.
B. Research Problems
In this research, the writer proposes two research questions, namely:
1. What types of word-formations are used to form English slang in The
Inbetweeners television series? 2.
What is the distribution of the word-formation in English Slang found in The Inbetweeners television series?
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C. Problem Limitation
This study concerns to analyze the slang words that are used in the first season of The Inbetweeners television series. The writer examines slang in British
English because the research object are television series using British English in its dialogue. In addition, the main focus of the discussion is the word-formation in
slang. To analyze the word-formation process, the writer uses the theories of word-formation from Akmadjian, Demers, Farmer, and Harnish 2010 also
O‟Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller 2010.
D. Research Objectives
There are three purposes in this study. First, it describes the word- formation processes employed in British general slang in The Inbetweeners
television series. Second, this study aims to discover the distribution of word- formation processes. Third, this research provides explanation related to slang.
Thus, the English speakers gain their knowledge about word-formation and language variation in English. It also helps the people to use the language
variation appropriately according to the context.
E. Research Benefits
This study is meant to give benefits to English learners, future researchers, and teachers. Through this research, English learners are able to enrich their
knowledge about English language variation, especially slang. The students do not only study about English variation, but also learn about English word-formations
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course because slang is a variation which is commonly used in the spoken informal situation and close to the real context of English speakers. Besides, Slang
is also often found in the English films. By conducting the study, hopefully, other researchers will be encouraged
to explore about any aspects in English slang deeper. Thus, the study related to English slang will be enriched and renewed. Moreover, the writer hopes the study
in slang ‟ word-formation will develop the linguistics study in morphology and
sociolinguistics branches. Thus, the sources that are related to slang are increasing and can help the future researcher to conduct the study on slang.
The writer wishes this study is beneficial for sociolinguistics teachers. The writer hopes this study can be an example for the teachers to provide an
interesting teaching material, such as: movies or television series, to explain about slang because films show the application of slang in their dialogue. Thus, it may
help the teachers to explain the context of the use of slang to the students as well.
F. Definition of Terms
