Discovering the Pattern of Pop Song Artist’s Word Formation Processes for Slangs

  • Yanti Kristina Sinaga Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Medan, Indonesia
  • Herman Herman Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Medan, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6818-5142
  • Arwin Tannuary Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Akuntansi dan Manajemen (STAMI), Pematangsiantar, Indonesia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31849/elsya.v4i2.6337
Keywords: Pop Songs, Slangs, Lyrics, Linguistic Analysis, Word Formation Process

Abstract

Songs is one of the most popular creations of human language, but linguistic study of this medium is still limited. One popular trend is to study the slangs in songs, but previous studies often used a single song or albums with little data, thus this study aims to explore the word formation of slangs in a pop album known for its numerous slangs in each song, namely the album Heaven & Hell by Ava Max. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The data is the lyrics of the 15 songs of the album which were analysed with content analysis to identify the slang word formation processes. Of the total 545 slangs, results found five types of processes: contraction, shortening, blending, clipping and compounding. Contraction is the most dominant type by a huge margin (77%), which is significantly different with the majority of previous studies’ conclusion that clipping is the most dominant type. This study offers a new insight by extending the amount of data. Similar studies in the past have mostly conducted this study on less than 200 data of slangs in a single song or a selection of a few songs in an album, while this study included all 15 songs in an album to obtain more than 500 data and found the pattern of dominant types of slang word formation process to be different than what has been reported over the years.

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Author Biographies

Yanti Kristina Sinaga, Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Medan, Indonesia

Yanti Kristina Sinaga is a permanent lecturer in English Department of FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan, Indonesia. She obtained her S.Pd. at Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan and she completed her Magister degree (M.Pd.) at Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan too. She has been teaching some subjects such as Interpersonal Speaking, Literal Reading, Classroom Interaction, Seminar On Research Proposal, Lesson Planning, TOEFL, Conference Interpreting and Microteaching. Her educational background leads her to be interested in English Language Teaching (ELT). Her articles in several journals of Accredited National Journal and reputable International Journals. She is available at [email protected]

Herman Herman, Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Medan, Indonesia

Herman is a permanent lecturer in the English Education Department, Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan. He obtained his Doctoral degree (Dr.) major in Applied Linguistics, case of Multimodal Discourse Analysis, from Universitas Negeri Medan (UNIMED) in Medan, Indonesia. He also held some non-academic degrees such as C.PMP., C.TWP., C.NEP., C.BPA., C.NET., C.PS., C.PSP., and C.ETP. He also completed Accredited World TESOL Academy for 120-Hour TESOL/TEFL Training Course and Accredited 60-Hour TEYL His research interests include language teaching, applied linguistics, multimodal, and literature. Through his interest, he has succesfully published some of his articles in Accredited National Journals and International journals including Scopus indexed. He is available at: [email protected]

Arwin Tannuary, Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Akuntansi dan Manajemen (STAMI), Pematangsiantar, Indonesia

Arwin Tannuary gained the Magister Degree (M.Pd.) in English Education Department from Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan in 2019. He is presently a permanent lecturer in the Management department, Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi dan Manajemen Indonesia (STAMI) Pematangsiantar. He is also the advisor of STAMI Student Executive Board, giving him the chance to actively engage with the students in many aspects of education and life. In addition, in his early career as a lecturer, he tries to do and publish some research in language teaching, applied linguistics, and literature scope. Through his interest, he has successfully published some of his articles in Accredited National Journals. He is available at: [email protected]

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2022-06-27
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Sinaga, Y. K., Herman, H., & Tannuary, A. (2022). Discovering the Pattern of Pop Song Artist’s Word Formation Processes for Slangs. Elsya : Journal of English Language Studies, 4(2), 157-167. https://doi.org/10.31849/elsya.v4i2.6337
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