Slang Words Used in Movie Script "Harold and Kumar Go To: White Castle"
Slang Words Used in Movie Script "Harold and Kumar Go To: White Castle"
Slang Words Used in Movie Script "Harold and Kumar Go To: White Castle"
Abstract
The title of this study is Slang Word Used in Movie Script “Harold And Kumar Go
to White Castle”. The aims of the study are to identify the types of slang and
meaning conveyed in movie script Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. The data
of this study were collected from” Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” movie
script as the data source. The theories used in the study are theory proposed by
Allan and Burridge (2006) entitled Forbidden words: Taboo and The Censoring of
Language used to identify the types of slang word, and theory proposed by by
Leech (1974) entitled Study of Meaning used to analyze the meanings conveyed in
the movie. The documentation method is used to collect the data, and descriptive
qualitative method is used to analyze the data. There were forty slangs either in the
form of words or phrases that are analyzed based on theory mentioned above.
There are five types of slang in theory of Allan and Burridge (2006) but only four
types were found in the movie script. Those are fresh and creative, imitative,
flippant, acronym, and clipping. Flippant type was the most found in the data
source. For the meaning, there were seven types of meaning based on the theory
proposed by Leech (1974) but only six types were found in the movie script. Those
are conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, collocative
meaning, reflected meaning, and affective meaning. Affective meaning type is the
most found in the data source.
Abstrak
Penelitian ini berjudul Kata Slang Digunakan dalam Naskah Film "Harold Dan
Kumar Go to White Castle". Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk
mengidentifikasi jenis-jenis slang dan makna yang disampaikan dalam naskah film
Harold dan Kumar Go to White Castle. Data penelitian ini diambil dari skrip film
"Harold dan Kumar Go to White Castle" sebagai sumber data. Teori yang
digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori yang dikemukakan oleh Allan dan
Burridge (2006) yang berjudul Forbidden words: Taboo and The Censoring of
Language yang digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi jenis-jenis kata slang, dan teori
yang dikemukakan oleh Leech (1974) berjudul Study of Meaning digunakan untuk
menganalisis jenis-jenis makna kata slang yang disampaikan dalam film. Metode
dokumentasi digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data, dan metode deskriptif
kualitatif digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Ada empat puluh slangs baik dalam
bentuk kata-kata atau frasa yang dianalisis berdasarkan teori yang disebutkan di
atas. Ada lima jenis slang dalam teori Allan dan Burridge (2006) tetapi hanya
empat jenis yang ditemukan dalam naskah film, yaitu fresh and creative, imitatif,
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Received : 5th August 2019
Accepted : 8th May 2020
Publised : 31st May 2020
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flippant, acronym, dan clipping. Jenis flippant adalah yang paling banyak
ditemukan di sumber data. Untuk makna, ada tujuh jenis makna berdasarkan teori
Leech (1974) tetapi hanya enam jenis yang ditemukan dalam naskah film, yaitu
makna konseptual, makna konotatif, makna sosial, makna kolokatif, makna yang
direfleksikan, dan makna afektif. Jenis makna afektif adalah yang paling banyak
ditemukan dalam sumber data.
Kata kunci: kata slang, jenis slang, makna, Harold dan Kumar.
Kumar Go to White Castle” movie script types of slang words by Allan and
as follows: Burridge (2006)” called the fresh and
a. Identifying the slang words or phrases creative, imitative, flippant, acronym,
in each conversation found in the and clipping. The theory about meaning
movie script. proposed by Leech (1974) including
b. Classifying the slang words or phrases conceptual meaning, connotative
based on theories.
meaning, social meaning, collocative
c. Analyzing the type and meaning
meaning, affective meaning, reflected
conveyed of the slang words in the
movie script based on theories. meaning, and thematic meaning.
The Slang Types in Harold and Kumar
Method and Technique of Presenting Go to White Castle
Data
“According to Sudaryanto a. Fresh and Creative
(1993:145), there are two types of Among all the dialogues in the
method that can be used to present the movie script of “Harold and Kumar Go to
analyzed data,” i.e formal and informal White Castle”, there are nine slang words
methods. Formal method means that the that can be considered as fresh and
analyzed data were presented using creative type, which “have brand-new
symbol, table, diagram, number. While vocabulary, clever imagination, informal
informal method means presenting the variety and can be up to date words or
result of the analysis by using words and even old words that people do not know.
sentences. This study used informal Nine slang words found in this research
presentation to present the first and categorized into fresh and creative type
second problem analysis. In regard to are” dude, nah, yeah, yo, scag, yep,
explain the categorization from slang bingo, poser, and jew.. “One of the
word or phrase, the forms of paragraph is examples is the word dude mentioned in
used in the data presentation. The a dialogue, shows that the slang word
paragraph explained some of slang comes as a new vocabulary and through
expressions and small portion of imagination from the speaker”. There are
explanation about the situation of slang also slang words of yo used in the
expression dialogue. There were several dialogue referring to someone of
steps in presenting data analysis, as informal situation with their informal
follow: variety.
a. Presenting the types and meanings b. Flippant
conveyed in the slang words. Among all the dialogues in the
b. Explaining and elaborating the types movie script of “Harold and Kumar Go to
and meanings conveyed in the slang White Castle”, there are twenty-six slang
words clearly to avoid words that can be considered as flippant
misunderstanding which is supported type. In this study, the point “of grouping
with the knowledge based on the slang word into flippant is when the slang
theories. form consists of more than two words
and do not have any relationship to the
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION denotative meaning”. The slang words
“There are two main theories used found in this research are love stains,
and related to the problems presented in crunching numbers, finest herb, boney
this study. Those are the theory about ass, fat blunt, yellow plague, yellow
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fever, Asian chick, sweet lord, getting word in slang expression is one of the
high, cock boy, twilight zone, holy shit, usage forms of imagination and effort to
pipe down, kiss of death, give a fuck, reach certain point in communication”.
what the hell, get the hell, fucking cute, “The imagination of slang expression and
what the fuck, where the hell, how the effort only apply in certain group or
hell, fucking hot, fucking asshole, blitzed place”. Several slang words found in this
out, and chill out. “One of the examples research that are grouped as clipping type
is the phrase blitzed out which consists of are bro, cops, gonna, gotta and nope.
two words that are blitzed and out. Each “One of the examples is the word bro,
of the two words has different meaning which is a slang word where the original
but when the two words are put together word” is brother and its meaning still has
into one phrase the meaning is different the same meaning with the original word.
from the original words”.
The Types of Meaning in Harold and
c. Imitative
Kumar Go to White Castle
Among all the dialogues in the
movie script “Harold and Kumar Go to a. Conceptual Meaning
White Castle”, there are twenty slang Conceptual meaning is identified
words that can be considered as where words acquired its own meaning
”imitative type, in which the slang word unlike the other meaning which consist
form imitates the other words or of peripheral meaning. There are eight
combination of two words that result in slang expressions found in this study that
different meaning. The slang words are categorized into conceptual meaning:
found in this study that are considered as gonna, gotta, what the hell, get the hell,
imitative type are” sucks, chick, damn, bingo, what the fuck, where the hell, ,
asshole, shitload, bullshit, fuck, blazed, and fucking poser. Those slang
sucked, shit, high, pussy, chronic, poetry, expressions can differ based on what it
dicks, horny, bitch, hippie, twinkie, and represents such as situation, attitude, and
lord. One of the examples is shit, “which person. There is also conceptual meaning
is a kind of slang word that fully imitates type that explicitly contains affective
the original word but has different meaning type to express speaker
meaning than the original word. The expression.
original meaning of the word shit is feces Data: Gonna
but it changes into a word that refers to The dialogue happened through
phrase to abuse someone or expression of
telephone while Harold in his Office and
bad situation”. The other example is
bullshit, which originated from two Kumar in med school interview. It is
words bull and shit, combined into one uttered by Harold in the conversation
and create a new meaning. with Kumar. The usage of slang word
gotta appeared in the part of scene when
d. Clipping Harold called Kumar and in voice that he
Among all the dialogues in the cannot smoke together as usual. The
movie script “Harold and Kumar Go to
scene is started when Harold taking on
White Castle”, there are five slang words
his office phone to call Kumar, Harold
that can be considered as clipping type,
where this slang word is identified by utterance “I’m not gonna able to partake
deleted word “in one or some parts but in our usual Friday night ritual. I’ve gotta
still has the same meaning as the uncut stay late at the office”. The slang word
one. The deletion of some part of the gotta is categorized into conceptual
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and to make the situation less formal. Kumar saw Maria and he uttered “Hey,
Beside that the word yo is also used to check it out! Your movie playing… and
show friendliness in the speaker target. look who to see it”. Harold seems
The slang word yo is categorized into surprised after he knows there is Maria
social meaning because it is used in the and he uttered “Holy shit”. The usage of
context of situation in the speaker slang expression holy shit in the Harold
utterance. utterance is categorized as affective
meaning type which expressed Kumar
d. Affective Meaning emotion of surprised to see his dream
“The usage of slang expressions that girl. It also expressed that Harold bashful
based itself on the expression of emotion to greet Maria due to he is always panic
that is expressed from the speaker or the and nervous with her. Meanwhile, the
writer is something that usually happens major meaning of phrase holy shit is
in daily conversation”. The expression affective type. It also has collocative
happened in order to deliver the speaker meaning because of the phrase company
feeling to the listener or reader. In term meaning is from a certain word which
of meaning of slang the expressions or created different meaning.
attitudes are often inserted in affective
meaning. Affective meaning is meaning e. Collocative Meaning
that describes what is communicated of Collocative meaning is the meaning
the feeling and attitudes of the speaker. that occurred because of acquiring
Affective meaning has more directly a company meaning from a certain word.
reflection of the speaker’s personal The words will produce different
attitude or feeling toward the listener of meanings when collocate with different
the target of the utterance. Feelings or words. Mostly the collocative meaning
attitudes in affective meaning slang are conveys the adjective followed by noun.
usually negative. “Several slang The slang expression categorized as
expressions found in this study collocative meaning type can be
categorized as affective meaning” type differentiated based on what the slang
are holy shit, asshole, bullshit, shit, what expression represents such as action or
the hell, get the hell, what the fuck, fuck, situation. There are also some slang
where the hell, sucked, how the hell, expressions that explicitly conveyed
godammit, sweet lord, give a fuck, affective meaning which expressed
fucking asshole, prick, dumbass, fucking emotion from the speaker such as hate
hot, and fucking cute. In this study and anger. The slang word that is
several emotions occur from the usage of categorized as collocative meaning type
the affective meaning such as surprised, found in this study is kiss of death,
anger, awe, hate, and passionate. Mostly, bullshit, asshole, boney ass, fat blunt,
the affective meaning type “occurred take a bow, work horse, dumbass and
explicitly together with another type in shitload.
one slang expression”. Data: Kiss of death
Data: Holy shit One of collocative meaning type in
The usage of slang expression holy this study is slang phrase kiss of death.
shit in the movie occurred in the Harold The slang phrase kiss of death is used in
utterance. The dialogue is between Kumar utterance. It occurred in the scene
Harold and Kumar. The scene happened of Harold going to meet Maria in her
while Harold and Kumar stopped at room but she already left to Amsterdam
traffic jam beside the movie theater. for ten days. Know that thing, Kumar
After the crowd entered the movie theater
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