74 phenomena in all complexity Leedy Ormrod 2005. Further, according to
Denzin and Lincoln 2005, p.3, qualitative research transforms real world phenomenon into “series of representations, including field notes, interview,
conversation, photographs, recording, and memo to the self” so all of the phenomena details may be interpreted carefully as cited in Cresswell, 2007. In a
qualitative study, the data are possible to be presented in the form of observation notes, research diary, photographs, drawings, patterns, interview, audio recording,
questionnaire, participant‟s diary, transcription, verbatim notes, film, video recording, and photocopy Holliday, 2002.
Since this qualitative research analyzed English slang word-formation from television series transcripts, it refers to document analysis. According to
Leedy and Ormrood 2005, document analysis is a detailed and systematic examination of the contents of a particular body of material for the purpose of
identifying purpose, theme or biased. Moreover, they reveal document analysis is typically performed on forms of human communication, including
” books, newspaper, films, television, art, music, video tapes of human interaction, and
transcripts conversation” p.42. Thus, it can be concluded that this study followed the nature of qualitative research proposed by Leedy and Ormrood 2005.
B. Research Subjects
The writer used transcripts from The Inbetweeners TV series as the research
subjects which
were found
in Springfield
website http:www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk
. The Inbetweeners is a title of British
75 situation comedy aired on E4, the British television channel from 2008 until 2010.
It was written by Damon Besley and Ian Morris. The Inbetweeners has been nominated in British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2009 and 2010, and
won the Audience Award at the British Academy Television Awards 2010. Moreover, it won the Best Sitcom award in 2010 and the award for Outstanding
Contribution to British Comedy in 2011 at the British Comedy Awards. The episodes talk about “
school bullying, broken family life, indifferent school staff,
male bonding ,
and largely failed sexual encounters ”. It consists of
18 episodes which are divided into 3 seasons.
The main characters are William Mckenzie, Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland, and Jay Cartwright. They are sixteen year old boys who study at
Rudge Park Comprehensive School. The boys are not popular students in their school. They are often bullied by other popular kids. Since they are not popular,
they always try to be popular and cool. Moreover, they are obsessed about girls and sex. Thus, almost all
of their discussion topics are about how to get the girls‟ attention and have sex with them. However, mostly, their effort is failed and
gives them some troubles. To conduct this study, the writer only used the episodes from the first
season because the writer believed it represented enough amounts of slang words as the data. In addition, analyzing transcripts from every episode in all seasons
was unpractical because each episode has almost 18 pages of transcripts.
76 The writer had some justification for choosing The Inbetweeners as the
data source. First, the major of the conversations in it were done by adolescent characters especially male. Once, Coleman 2012 suggests that male teenagers
have more tendencies to use slang to impress the girl. Besides, Anderson and Trudgill 1990 and Allen 1998 suggest that males often employ slang to covert
prestige because using slang is regarded by having manly and strong qualities as cited in Matiello, 2008. Second, almost all situations in it happen in informal
spoken environment and it is in line with that Mattiello 2008 who that slang occurs in unofficial situation.
C. Instuments and Data Gathering Technique
