AN ANALYSIS OF SLANG ON TWITTER

Abstract

Twitter is one of the famous social networks which becomes popular site in the
world. Specially slang that used by twitter acount itself. Slang is informal
language that used by a group. This thesis discribes form and meaning of slang
that found on twitter. The problem of this research deals with slang language
which is used by twitter user. The Method that is used in this research is
comparative method. Based on analysis data that found, the writer found two form
of slang, namely words (noun, verb, and adjective) and phrase. Meanwhile, in the
explanation the meaning that the writer explain just limited to connotative
meaning that appears for tweet which is written. Tha data were taken from Twitter
(www.twitter.com). The result of the purpose show that from analysis the writer
found kind of slang from words and phrase which is an unique meaning is
deserving by twitter user itself – change the meaning from denotive meaning
become new meaning.
Key words: slang, twitter, form, meaning