Slang Words in “The Warriors” Movie

Abstract

This research deals with Slang words in “The Warriors” movie. The purpose of this study was to determine the type and meaning of the slang used in “The Warriors” movie. The data source is taken from the script of The Warriors movie. The Warriors movie classified as American action movie released in February 1979 and directed by Walter Hill and written by David Shaber. The research design used in this research is descriptive qualitative research. This research is described one by one slang words are found from the film The Warriors by using dictionaries and theories related to slang. From the analysis, there are two types of slang, namely society slang and public house slang. There are 9 word of society slang and 4 word of public house slang. Then the slang word in the form of words and phrases are classified and analyzed. These findings suggest that there are several slang words and phrases in The Warriors that have been classified into a type of slang. Some theories used in analyzing the data were taken from Partridge (1950).This study is expected to contribute to the reader to find out about slang clearly. This can help readers speak English fluently. And it can too is expected to enrich new English vocabulary used in everyday conversation.