Morphological Analysis of Slang Words Spoken by Transgender Community in Manado

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.177How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Morphological analysis, Slang Words, Transgender Community

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe slang words spoken by transgender community in Manado, to describe the meaning and how they form the slang words. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data were taken from natural conversation among transgenders and the data taken were in the form of oral sentences. The source of data was transgender community in Manado city. The results of the study shows that transgender slang words are formed by borrowing words of foreign language or syllables of Indonesian language, using additional deviated words with specific affixes, or changing of phonemes or into other common words. Transgender community inserts the slang words into Manado Malay language using Manado Malay language structure to form their utterances. They sometimes use it as a secret code and show solidarity marker among their community.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nurmin F.R. Samola
AU  - Fivy A. Andries
AU  - Tirza A. Kumayas
AU  - Rinny S. Rorimpandey
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Morphological Analysis of Slang Words Spoken by Transgender Community in Manado
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 859
EP  - 863
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icss-18.2018.177
DO  - 10.2991/icss-18.2018.177
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