30 particular thing e.g. bird, chick, gash, and muff
to refer „girl‟, slang makes the language is not boring to be used. The users may change the conventional words
with slang to make their utterances not boring and have a lot of word variations.
t. Impertinence
Slang is impertinent. It is impolite and it has a tendency to disrespect people. According to Mattiello 2008, slang uses some impolite appellations and
derogatory terms. For an example, debbies is used as a derogatory of „an elegant
and attractive man in high society who flirt s‟; bimbo is used to „denote a stupid
beautiful woman‟.
u. Offensiveness
Since slang is full of derogatory vocabularies, it offenses people. Based on Mattiello, 2008, slang is used to offense people by using particular vocabulary
which characterizes certain group of people in the basis of negative stereotype. Some slang words convey negative meaning to offense a group of people with
certain quality. For examples, fag is used to offense „male homosexual‟; bitch
which has negative meaning is used to call „an unkind or unpleasant woman‟, is
used as a derogatory for a woman; nigga is derogatory terms to denote the „black
people from Africa‟.
v. Secrecy
One of slang‟s typicals is to keep secrets and to hide the conversation from people from outside the group Mattiello, 2008, p.52. Slang is like a code of
31 particular social group. Slang users employ slang in order to conceal secret
important information. They cover the real meaning so that the outsiders do not understand the information. Criminals, like drug dealer and robbers, employ slang
so the police will not be able to capture their conversation which contains with important secret information.
w. Musicality
According to Mattiello 2008, slang tends “to play with sounds” and uses
rhyme to create slang. She proposes it happens in the Cockney Rhyming Slang Mattiello 2008 p.53, for example rock and ages
„ wages‟, bull and cow „row‟, adam and eve
„to believe‟. Besides Cockney rhyming slang, the rhyming sound of slang is exemplified by reduplication and alliteration.
x. Privacy
Slang is private vocabulary. Speakers use slang with the intention to keep the group privacy by excluding the outsiders because they do not want the
outsiders to understand the in-group conversation Mattiello, 2008. However, at the same t
ime slang exhibits the group‟s bond and closeness because the shared information is only understood by the group members Mattiello, 2008. For
example, slang is applied in the group of the drug dealers, thieves, robbers or other criminals groups to keep their privacy so the police or the other people who
32 are not included in their group will not understand their conversation. This is also
applied by a group of boys who look for girls as sexual partners. Slang is applied by homosexuals to cover their identity from society as well.
y. Aggressiveness
