5. As an addition, the researcher used Urban Dictionary, Oxford Slang Dictionary
and American Slang Dictionary to analyze the meaning of slang expressions found in Clueless movie.
6. Finally the researcher draw the conclusion and suggestion based on the result of
the analysis.
F. Trustworthiness
To gain trustworthiness, there are four criteria such as credibility, dependability, conformability, and transferability Moleong, 2010: 324. In this
research, the trustworthiness is gained by using credibility. To achieve credibility, which concerns with the accuracy of the data Moleong,
2010: 325, the researcher used triangulation technique. As Moleong 2010: 325 states, triangulation is a technique for checking the trustworthiness of data by using
something outside the data to verify the data or to compare them. There are four types of triangulation: by source, by method, by theory, and by strategy. The researcher
used the source and theory triangulation in which the main source was the original DVD of Clueless movie. The researcher undertakes deep and detail observation of the
data and applied some theories from the experts related to this research. Furthermore, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary of Slang, Dictionary of
American Slang and Colloquial Expressions, Urban Dictionary are employed to validate and confirm the data.
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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. Findings
This section presents the findings based on the formulation of the problems. The findings include the types of slang found in the movie, description of
translation strategies of slang expressions used in the movie, and description of meaning equivalence of the translation of English slang expressions used in the
movie and their Indonesian subtitling. The findings are in the form of quantitative data, which is the frequency of data occurrence and their percentage.
1. Description of the Slang Expressions Types
In this study, the researcher found 96 slang expressions used by the characters in Clueless movie. The researcher first analyzed the types of slang
based on Willis’s theory which divides slang into two types: standard expression
and new invention. The table below shows the categorizations, the frequencies,
and the percentage related to the types of slang found in the observed movie. Table 2. The Types of Slang in Clueless Movie
No Types of Slang
Frequency Percentage
1. Standard Expression
42 43.75
2. New Invention
54 56.25
Total 96
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From the table above, it can be seen that new invention is more commonly used than the standard expression. There are 54 or 56.25 slang expressions
