A Study of Slang Words in Ride Along movie and It’s Contribution on Vocabulary Learning

Abstract

This research studied the analysis of the slang word in “Ride Along” Movie. The objectives of the study were (1) to find out the types of slang words used in Ride Along movie, (2) to explain the meaning of slang words found in Ride Along movie (3) to explain the contributions of this research to vocabulary teaching. The design of the research was descriptive qualitative research. The object of the research was script Ride Along Movie. The instruments of the study were the data from the script movie. The result this study concluded that there are 16 slang words and phrases have been classified into type of slang. This analysis limits only 16 slang words and phrases because these slangs often utilized in the dialogue, but there are any some slangs used once. So, we can see that those are the slang word that have been found in the Ride Along movie. The finding “Man” has meaning of “one’s friends; a buddy; exclamation” then have contextual meaning “buddy”, “shit” it means “to express anything bad, poor, inferior, unpleasant” and this is the expression of worries,  “bulshitting” it means “unpleasant felling” it have contextual meaning “doing something”. The contribution of study slang word is to study vocabulary. The finding slang word can be used for teaching vocabulary. One of alternatives that the students having new vocabulary, especially slang word. The students will more familiar with the English slang that the native speaker used for the daily conversation.