132 The writer concluded, it occurred because the characters did not use any
abbreviation slang.
c. Generified Word
Generified word is a word-formation process by using specific brand name of product as names Akmadjian, Demers, Farmer Harnish, 2010. Through
this process, new lexical can enter to Standard English. The example of generified word in English is laid on klenex. At first, it is a popular brand of tissue
but now klenex is used widely to denote tissue. The writer did not find the application of generified word to English slang
in “The Inbetweeners”. However, the writer was sure generification process existed to build English slang. For example, it was exemplified by a name of Area
in United Kingdom, East ham . It is a slang word which means „nearly mad‟.
Edinburgh fringe was the example of generified word as well. It was a compound word from fringe and Edinburgh. The second base, Edinburgh, was a
name capital city of Scotland. It was rhyming slang for minge which is applied to denote „a female pubic hair‟.
d. Narrowing
Narrowing is defined as a process of taking a more restricted meaning than before Radford, Atkinson, Britain, Clahsen Spencer, 2009. It is exemplified
by meat which was used to call „any solid consumable food‟ Akmadjian, Demers,
Farmer Harnish, 2010. Now, its meaning is narrowing and only it is only used to denote „an edible animals‟ solid flesh‟.
133 In first season of The Inbetweeners television series, the writer did not find
narrowing phenomena that form English slang. However, the writer believed it might occur in English slang because English slang follows the standard English
word-formation process. Since the limited sources, the writer could not mention the examples of narrowing process in slang.
e. Tone placement
Tone placement is a process of using pitch to create a new meaning in a particular word. According to O‟Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller
2010, tone placement only occurs in the language which pitch affects the meaning of the words. Since, the meaning in English was not affected by pitch,
tone placement occurrences did not exist in English slang. It is only applied in tonal language, such as Thai and Burmese.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS
The fifth chapter describes the conclusion of the study on English slang word-formation in the first season of The Inbetweeners. This chapter also presents
the implication of this study and provides any possible suggestions for students, future researchers, and English teachers.
A. Conclusions
This study aims at answering two research questions related to word- formation processes in English slang which are discovered in the first session of
The Inbetweeners television series. The first research question is “what types of
word-formation are used to form English slang words in first session of The Inbetweeners
television series?” The second research question is “what is the distribution of word-formation in English Slang discovered in the first session of
The Inbetweeners television series?” To answer those questions, the writer
conducted document analysis study on a British sitcom series entitled The Inbewteeners.
Through the study, the writer draws conclusions that English slang in The Inbetweeners television series had 19 types of word formation, namely: coined
word, clipping, blending, proper noun, borrowing, internal change, suppletions,
