THE SLANG WORDS USED IN THE HITCH FILM BY ANDY TENNANT

Langguage has many variation in society which is used by many people in this world. One of the famous varieties of language that used by many people is slang words. Slang is one of varieties of langguage in sociolingguistic esed by society to interact each other based on context and used by some commonities. In this thesis discusses about The Slang Word Used In The Film Hitch by Andy Tennant. The purpuse of this research first to know the kinds of slang words, second to know the meaning of slang words uses in the film Hitch by Andy Tennant and the last to know the function of slang words used in the film film Hitch by Andy Tennant. In this research used the theory of slang words by Eric Partridge, Miriam Meyerhoff, the theory of meaning by Geoffrey Leech and theory the funcion by Alan and Burridge to answer the problem the research. This research is qualitative research that focused on qualitative research. The source of data is taken from the Hitch film by Andy Tennant The research findings are first, there are two kinds of slang words used in the film Hitch by Andy Tennant such as society slang (gonna, gotta, wanna, kinda,what‟s up, hook up, shit, damn, hell, yeah), and public house slang (guys, buddy, kids, baby, fuck off, dude). Second there are two meaning of slang words uses slang word in the film Hitch by Andy Tennant such as connotative meaning where it is not specific to language (baby, damn, shit, hell), conceptual meaning refers to the logical sense of the utterancee (what‟s up, pissin, fuck off, kids, gonna, buddy, sweetheart), and social meaning refers to the use of language to establish and regulate social relations and to maintain social roles (guys, gotta and wanna). The last there are three function of slang words used in the fim Hitch by Andy Tennant susch as to initate relax conversation, to humiliate and to address.n