Analysis of Slang Words Formation Found in the Lyrics of Drakeâ€™s Songs

I Gede Budasi; I Putu Abdi Bhuwana

doi:10.9744/kata.22.1.10-16

I Gede Budasi Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
I Putu Abdi Bhuwana Ganesha University of Education, Bali

DOI: https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.22.1.10-16

Keywords: slank, word formation, song lyrics

Abstract

This research attempted to find out the word formation processes of slang words found in the lyrics of Drakeâ€™s songs. This research applied descriptive qualitative research design. The theory of the 18 word formation processes based on the synthesized theories from Yule (2010), Mattielo (2008), Oâ€™Grady, Aronoff, & Dobrovolsky (1997) were used as guidelines. This study found out that there were 190 slang words existing in the lyrics of the songs. They were respectively categorized into clipping (27%), coinage (25%), multiple process (22%), compounding (18%), reduplicatives (2%), variation (2%), borrowing (1%), blending (1%), acronym and initialism (1%), reversed forms (0.5%), and onomatopoeia (0.5%).

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