A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON SLANG LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PONOROGO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

Keyword : Slang, Social Media
Slang is informal language which is very popular for teenager in daily
communication and social media. The kinds of word formation which form slang
language are abbreviation, blending, borrowing, and coinage. Students of
university usually use all kinds of those slangs. However, slang language is non
standard language so it can give impact for students both of positive and negative.
This research was held on Muhammadiyah University of Ponorogo, Jl.
Budi Utomo number 10 Ponorogo. The research design is qualitative research
especially phenomenological study. Researcher used qualitative observation and
qualitative interview as the data collection technique in this research.
Based on the finding, slang language which is used by fourth semester of
English Department students in social media especially facebook, twitter, and
whatsapp are abbreviation, blending, borrowing, and coinage word formation.
Slang words which formed by abbreviation process are Thx, HBD, sis, etc. The
blending words are copast, kinda, and modem. The borrowing words are hp, ko,
flu, etc. Then, coinage words are selfie, cus, gengs, etc. In addition, the impacts of
slang language used in social media are people can deliver information easier but
it can arouse bad impact in writing (error in grammar).
Finally, the researcher proposed suggestion to students in university for
using slang language in social media and daily communication wisely by
considering time, place, and condition