The Formation of Japanese Wakamono Kotoba and Indonesian Bahasa Gaul

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10.2991/assehr.k.211119.067How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bahasa gaul; sociolinguistic; wakamono kotoba; youth slang

Abstract

Youth language is a language gap between the elders and the youths. The purpose of this research is to describe youth language or slang, which in Japanese is called wakamono kotoba. The data was collected from YouTube content because YouTube has a large number of viewers. Both Japanese and Indonesian contents included 48 youth slang. The technique of comparing each category and characteristic of Japanese and Indonesian youth slang was used as an analysis. The explanation of the forms of how youth language is formed will be put in the categories based on the youth language formations theory by Tanaka (1996). The result revealed that Indonesian youth slang formation was dominated by abbreviation formations. While in Japanese, it is dominated by the formation of flattening the accent and characterization. Moreover, Japanese youth languages have the addition of nouns and auxiliary verbs because the Japanese language has Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana letters.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Maulidyawan Dian Danendra
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/21
TI  - The Formation of Japanese Wakamono Kotoba and Indonesian Bahasa Gaul
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 430
EP  - 435
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.067
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.067
ID  - Danendra2021
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