Classifying and Analyzing the Data

82 Table 3.3: Example of Data Organization Title: First Day No Sentences Slang Characteristics Morphological Process Meaning 1 What a tosser Tosser 1,3,4b The sentence in the table 3.3 is tagged with 1, 3, 4b. It means that the sentence has three criteria of slang. First, the presence of the word tosser in the table 3.3 will markedly lower the dignity of a formal or serious speech or writing. Second, the slang in that sentence is the tabooed term in ordinary discourse with persons of higher social status or greater responsibility. Third, it is used to place of the well-known conventional synonym to protect the user from the discomfort or annoyance of further elaboration.

3. Classifying and Analyzing the Data

After examining the data, the writer started to classify and analyze the data. All of slang words discovered in the transcript were classified and analyzed according to the twenty six word-formations processes. Those were proposed by Akmadjian, Demers, Farmer, Harnish 2010 and O‟Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, Rees-Miller 2010. The writer used a protocol that is exemplified by table 3.1 in classifying and analyzing process. The writer gave the code to label the word- formation process in the selected slang words and noted the code in the protocol. For instances, code “R” was used for reduplicative slang, “O” to mark the onomatopoeic slang, “SD” was the code for slang which applied the semantic drift process, “CPS” as the code for slang words that changed the part of speech, and 83 “ME” for slang that was applied metaphorical extension process. Then, after classified the word formation process, the writer noted the meaning of the slang word. To find out the meaning of the selected slang, the writer consulted the meaning to Dictionary of Contemporary Slang London 2007, The Concise New Patridge Dictionary of Slang 2007, The Concise New Patridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Oxford Dictionary of Slang 1998, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch Phrases, Fossilised Jokes and Puns, General Nicknames, Vulgarisms, and Such Americanisms As Have Been Naturalised 8 th ed., Dictionary of Contemporary Slang 2007, and, Cambridge Advance Learners‟ Dictionary 3 rd edition. The writer chose those dictionaries because they were accessible and published by reliable publishers. In the table 3.4, the writer presents the example of the data classification and analysis process and the use of protocol that was applied in this research. The slang word in the table 3.4 is labeled as “Aff”. It means that the slang word has an affixation process. Table 3.4: Example of Data Classification Title: First Day No Sentences Slang Characteristics Word-Formation Meaning 1 What a tosser Tosser 1,3,4B Aff an idle, worthless andor foolish person. 84 After all of the words had been analyzed holistically and the part of characteristics and word-formations table process had been filled, the writer recorded the distribution of slang word formation by noted the amount words which experienced word-formation processes. It recorded in the second blueprint. Table 3.5 exemplified the application of table 3.2 which was supposed to record the word-formation distribution Table 3.5: The Example of Slang Word-Formation Distribution Recording Word-Formation Processes Occurrences Word-Formation Processes Occurrences Coined Word 20 words Tone Placement NA Acronyms 3 words Cliticization NA Alphabetical Abbreviation NA Back-Formation 1 word Clipping 16 words Onomatopoeia 6 words Blending 7 words Change in the Part of Speech 1 word Generified Word 3 words Metaphorical Extension 2 words Proper Noun 1 word Broadening 4 words Borrowing NA Narrowing 1 word Inflection 2 words Semantic Drift 12 words Internal Change NA Reversal NA Suppletions NA Compounding 15 words Reduplication 8 words Affixation 20 words 85

4. Concluding According to the Finding