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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Language is very important in our lives. People at least use one language to convey and
express their ideas, desire and feelings through communication process with others. As Chaer
and Leony state that by language one can talk woth others, express his desires,his feeling and his
ideas (Chaer and Leony, 1995:22).
Language is also a social phenomenon. It is a means of communication between individuals
and brings them into relationship with enviroment (Boey, 1975:3). So, language and society are
two things, which are inseparable. They have close realationship since each other support
another. Kartomiharjo states that a society dwelling in a certain region is generally divisible into
smaller groups. They formed by ethnic, profession, religion, ideology, socio-economic,education
and others (1988:3-4).
Those variables create varieties of language such as language used by teachers, student,
farmers, or gangster. Each of them has certain characteristic differentiating one from others,
Gumperz in Gigliogi state that people tend to use their own terminology in-group
communication and themajority language for interaction with considers.
Beside that, some varieties of language are also caused by age, sex and occupation, and
function (Wardaugh, 1997:219-220). As cook and suter state in Wibisono, age, sex, ethnic
affiliation and profession or occupations also affect theway people to talk (2003:12).
Dealing with age, there are language varieties used by the youth as phase of transition from
childhood to adulthood, may lead to the term identity to be taken into consideration (silvy,
2001). They create their own language to show their identity. Beside that, they use it to make the
outsider my not understand it. They tend to use informal style rather than formal one because it
creates the situation sound friendly in communication.
A form of informal style that is usually used by theyouth is slang. According to Hartman
and Stork in Alwasilah state that slang is :
A variety of speech chareterized by newly coined and rapidly changing
Vocabulary, used by the young or by social and proffesional groups for in groupcommunication
and thus tending to prevent understanding
By the rest of the speech community ( 1990:57). Pei and Gaynor add that slang is a style of
language in fairly common use, produced by popular adaptation and extension of the meaning of
existing words by coining new words with disregard scholastic standard and linguistic principles
of the formation words. As the Gay Community of Malang something hidden behind the Gay
cheerful appearance, they have a typical style, Own social attitude, Culture and history protest or
even politics and religion (Nadjib, 1986).
Some time if you heard what they are talking about, you seemed to be confused to catch it,
caused it seemed that they are make, mixed or maybe interfered with another word.
These are the example as consideration :
Sayonara lapangan bola nih.
Saya lapar baget nih.
(I am very hungry)
Kenapose sih . . . adindah yang luncang ?
Kenapa sih . . . . ada yang lucu ?
(why . . . it is funny ? )
Kamuflase mawar duane atau sastra ?
Kamu mau dua atau satu ?
(Do you want one or two ? )
Hai . . . apose kabaret bow ?
Hai . . . apa kabar broe ?
( Hy . . . how are you guys )
The example generalized that themember of Gay posses their own language variety that is
slang, the outsiders will have difficulty in catching and understanding the sense if these
language, the secret code as sayonara lapangan bola nih may means nothing for other people,
but the member of Gay community understand the meaning of it, because this code used as
means of communication scretly between themember.
Gay deals with some aspect like : society, music and urbanities phenomenon. They gather at
sidewalks, department stores entrances,salon, beach, train station ta night, art communicaties and
other place that they easily be seen. A little bit explanations for all the reader especially
sociolinguistic observes that not all of Gay community live style is bad, sometimes is good,
event for outsider of Gay community.
The study of sociolinguistics, especially in thefield of informal style is very exciting, it is
because thetendency for speakers to use informal style to create situation sound friendly and
closer. In everyday live communication among members of society prefer to use informal rather
than formal one.
Based on thephenomenon above, thestudy is intended to reveal theslang of surabaya punk
society, which reflects thevariety of codes spreading in thespeech society they tend to be
bilingualism, by using their own idiom for in-group communication. Even though this language
is dynamic and it can be changes, it should be well documented and it should be well studied.
1.2 Statement of the problem
Based on the background of study, the problems are formulated as follow:
1. What slang words does the Malang of Gay community employ ?
2. In what social context do they use the slang words ?
3. Why does Malang Gay community use the slang word ?
1.3 Purpose of the Study
In accordance with the problem of the study, the objective are formulated as follows :
1. To identity the slang words employed by the Malang of Gay community.
2. To analyze the social context of the use slang words
3. To reveal the reason why they use slang words.
1.4 Significance of the Study
Based on the background of the study, the writer expect that the study will give a
meaningful contribution to the sociolinguistic study and enlarge the view of the students of
English Department, in particular, and for the sociolinguistic observes in general.
1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study
The study refers to linguistics varitions, which exits in Malang. It is focused in aspect namely :
1. Vocabulary items on some slang word charectirized Malang Gay
community
2. The social context of slang usage
The reasons of the slang usage
1.6 Definition of Key Terms
Some items of terminology are defined in order to avoid misinterpretation :
1. Slang is part of casual, informal styles of language use. It is often perceived as low or vulgar
of language and is deemed to be out of place in formals styles of
language
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1
According to bell sociolinguistics is the relatively new approach with in linguistics to the description of
variation in language (Marjohan,1988:5). Sociolinguistics has shown systematic correlations
between variation in linguistics form (phonological, morphological, syntactic) and social variabels the
social strata to which speaker belong, social relationship between participants in linguistics
interactions, differences in social setting or occasion, differences of topic, and so on (Faircloug,
1989:7).While fishmen (1972:4) states that sociolinguistics in the study of the characteristics of
language varieties, the charateristics of their function, and the charateristics of their speaker as the
three constantly interact, change, change one another with in a speech community.
2.1
Speech Community
Speech community is a group of people who can all understand each other when they speak
(Corder, 1973:50). They are usually in the same area, speaking the variant of a language, or the
same standard language (Hartman and Stork, 1972:215).
While Hymes and Halliday (1972) states that thespeech community as a group of people who feel
them self to be a community in some sense, rather than a group which only the linguist and outsider
could know about (in Hudson. 1980:26).
According to fishman speech community is one, all of those members share at least a single speech
variety and the norms for its appropriate use. A speech community may be, as small as a single
closed interaction network, all of whose members regard each other in but a single capacity
(Nirmalasari excerpted Wibisono,2002).
The speech community is not defined by any marked agreement in the use of language elements, so
much as by participation in a set of shared norms, these norms may be observed in overt types of
evaluative and by the uniformity of abstract patterns of variation, which are invariant in respect to
partcular levels of usage (Labov, 1972:120).
Speech community is any human aggregate characterized by reguler and frequent interaction by
means of a shared body of verbal signs and set off from similar aggregates by significant differences
in language use (Gumperz, 1972:129).
2.2
Language
Language is a means of establishing and maintaining relationship with other people. It is a
purely human and non- instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires, by
means of a system of voluntarily produces symbols (Spair in Alwasilah, 1990:7). By language one
can talk with other, express their desires, his feeling, and his ideas (Chaer and Leony, 1995:22).
Language as a system of arbitrary vocal symbols which permit a people in a given culture, or other
people who have then a system of that culture, to communicate or to interact (Finochiaro, 1986:75).
We use language to ask for and give people information. We use it to express indignation and
annoyance, as well as admiration and respect. Often one utterance will simulataneously convert
both information and expresses feeling (Holmes, 2001:2). As a social structure and value system o
society, different dialects and accents are evaluated in different way (Trudgill, 1974:19 ).
2.4
Language Variation
Janet Holmas (2001:11) difines that variety is a sociolinguistics term referring to language in
context. It is broad term that includes differents acccents, differents linguistic style, different dialect
and even different language which contrast with each other for social reason (Holmes, 2001:11).
While Freguson and Gumpers in Allen and Corder ( 1973:92) state that variety is any body of human
speech patterns which is sufficiently homogeneous to be analyzed by available techniques of
synchronic description and which has a sufficiently large repertory of elements and their
arrangements or processes with broad enough semantic scope to function in all normal contexts of
communication.
According to Wolfram and Christian as stated in varieties of American English, language variation is
the fact society, tied in with the tradition of people and social factors that distinguish different cultural,
social, and ethnic group from each other. As a form of behavior language differences simply reflect
social differences of one type or another (in Presto and Shey, 1984:26). As Kartomiharjo states that
language variation are associates by the differences of a language that caused by the distinction of
socio-economic, background of education, profession, ideology and dreams, religions, and others
(1988:61)
Futhermore, Wardhaugh in his books, an introduction to sociolinguistic (1977:219), indicates some
varieties of language :
1.
By age
Language varies according the age of theperson using it. In this ways, it varies because language
must be learned and there appear to be stages through which individual process of language
acquisition. Old people speak differently from young people and that linguistics generations gap
exists. Likewise, accepted patterns exits for communicating between and within thegenerations : old
people to young, young to old people, adolescents to their peers, and so on.
2.
The variation of language, in this way, is related to function. There are both formal and informal
styles of speaking and writing. Writing also tends to be more formal than speaking in the sense that
more conscious manipulation of vocabulary and sintax takes place. The most informal styles of
speaking are often unjustly condemmed, for very few words used to describe slang are anything
other than pejorative. Slang, with its clipped and shortened forms, and its novel uses and
combinations of words, is a universal linguistic phenomenon.
2.5
Slang
Slang is a style category within the language, which occupies and extreme position on
thespectrum of formality. Its lies beyond more informality where language is considered too racy,
novel or unsavory for use in conversation with strangers. So slang enforces intimacy. It often
performs an improtant social function, which is to include into or excluded from the intimacy circle,
using forms of language through which speaker identify with or function within social sub-groups,
schoolchildren and yuppies, to criminals, and drinkers.
From Nirmalasaris perspective slang is very difficult to define because it deals with speakers
enormous creativity in their use in slang, how ever she explain some salient features in this forms of
language.
In her opinion slang is part of casual informa styls of language use, it is often perceived, as Low or
Vulgar form of languuage and it is seemed to be out of place in formal styles of language. Dealing
with linguistic taboo, it i considered as semi taboo language ( Hudson, 1980:53).
One generations slang maybe another generations standard vocabulary. For examples, Fan ( as in
Michael Jackson Fan ) was once a slang term, short for fanatic, phone, was clipped verson of
telephone, as TV was of television. ( Nirmalasari excerpted Al wasila, 1988:145).
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the actual definition of slang is consisting new or something
old in new way. Futhermore, Hartman and Stork define that slang is a variety of speech
characterized by newly coined and rapidly changing vocabulary used by the young or by social and
professional groups for in group communication and thus tending to prevent understanding by the
rest of the speech community (1972:210).
In the other hand, Pei and Gainor define that slang is a style of language in fairly common use,
produced by popular adaptation and extension of the meaning of existing word by coining new word
with disregard scholastic standard and linguistic principles of the formation of words, generally
peculiar to certain classes and social or age groups (1954:199).
Holmes states that slang is another area of vocabulary, which reflects a persons age. He adds that
current slang is the linguistics prerogative of young people and generally sound add in the mouth of
an older person. It signals membership of particular group. The young vocabulary can be a real giveaway if you are trying to guess a persons age on the telephone or radio. There are many various
ways to make slang. According to Thomas Pyle in Yolanda ( 2001:11-15). Many various processes
of making new words as folloes can form slang :
1. Root Creation
They are formed by purely arbitrary combination of letters, not drived in whole or in part from any
existing words. For example is Kodak. Kodak is a word completely without any associations with any
existing word. It is name of camera, which appeared firstly in the U,S Patent Office Gazette in 1988.
2. Trade Name
They are formed in the naming of products. For example : Vaseline. It is made from German Wasser
water plus Greek elaion oil.
3. Echoic / Onomatopoeic Words
There is sound alone which is basic limited number of words,such as : bank, splash, and so on.
4. Ejaculations
Sounds supposedly imitative of more or less instinctive vocal responses to emotional situations have
become words in their own right. for example : ouch is an exclamation at fairly mild pain.
5. The Use of Prefixes and Suffixes
Other processes commonly acquire new words as the use of prefixes and suffixes such as
employed, understand, ex-wife.
6.
7.
Compounds
They make new word by putting two or more words together with a meaning in some ways different
such as girlfriend, blackbird, and textbook.
8.
9.
Back Formation
They are making new words, which are mistakenly assumed to be a derivative of it. For example :
burgle from burglar.
10. Blends
Blending of two words does a process of making a new word. For it instance : smog and fog.
11. Acronyms
A process of the use of the intial letters of the words in phrases, sometimes it uses the syllables, for
example : radar is from radio detecting and ranging.
Original meaning
Replaces
Indonesia term
ampun
meaning
in set phrase
ya
ampun
(oh my God!)
amplop
envelope
Balikpapan
city
in kembali
Kalimantan
British
becak
Broadcasting
Corporation
cough medicine
bodoh
youre welcome
to kiss
mbr
brand
toothpaste
pail,bucket
jelita
BBC
bodrex
ciptadent
of cium
pedicab
stupid
emang
indeed
lovely
jelek
bad
lapangan
Open eld
lapar
hungry
Makassar
city in Sulawesi
makan
to eat
mawar
rose
mau
to want
to go home
semangka
sutra
silk
sudah
already
tinta
Tint
tidak
no
Polonia
Samarinda
youre welcome
to like
Youth as a phase of transition from chilhood to adulthood may lead to the term identity to be
taken into consideration. In this way, modern society sometimes plays a very significant role to the
following of identity for the youth (Dyson, 2001).
The transition phase in modern society becomes longer. It is caused by an obligation as an adult to
fulfill material and social status to need highly. As a result, a free lifestyle, according to him is likely
to be chosen.
The paculiar lifestyle of youth can be linked to many related ideas. There are complex relation ship
among body, fashion, style and appearance, and personal identity decided by someone ( Juliastuty
2001 ). Gay and youth bear an increased risk of suicide, substance abuse, school problems, and
isolation because of a "hostile and condemning environment, verbal and physical abuse, rejection
and isolation from family and peers. Further, LGB youths are more likely to report psychological and
physical abuse by parents or caretakers, and more sexual abuse. Suggested reasons for this
disparity are that (1) LGBT youths may be specifically targeted on the basis of their perceived sexual
orientation or gender non-conforming appearance, and (2) that "risk factors associated with sexual
minority status, including discrimination, invisibility, and rejection by family members...may lead to an
increase in behaviors that are associated with risk for victimization, such as substance abuse, sex
with multiple partners, or running away from home as a teenager." A 2008 study showed a
correlation between the degree of rejecting behaviour by parents of LGB adolescents and negative
health problems in the teenagers studied:
Higher rates of family rejection were significantly associated with poorer health outcomes. On the
basis of odds ratios, lesbian, gay, and bisexual young adults who reported higher levels of family
rejection during adolescence were 8.4 times more likely to report having attempted suicide, 5.9 times
more likely to report high levels of depression, 3.4 times more likely to use illegal drugs, and 3.4
times more likely to report having engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse compared with peers
from families that reported no or low levels of family rejection.
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1
Research Methods
Research methodology is an essential part in conducting a research. The method use in this
3.2
develops a relationship and who tells about, or informs on, the field. Good informants, he adds, must
meet some criteria such as : Live and engages within the group routines, currently, involved, able to
spend time with researcher, and come from non-analytic members.
Meleong (2002:90) comment it in hi book and says that,
Informan adalah orang yang dimanfaatkan untuk memberikan informasi tentang situasi dan
kondisi latar penelitian, jadi ia harus mempunyai banyak pengelaman tentang latar penelitian.
(Informant is a native speaker who acts as a model for someone and giving information about
situation and condition for research, so he must have a lot of experience about the background of
research.)
The informants ( Gay ) observed, are those who are in this conditions :
1. Live in Malang
2. Aged around 17 26 years old
3. Phsycally and mentally healthy
4. Trustworthy and responsible
5. Join the Gay community at least more than one year
The informants of this study are 8 persons, they are considered to represent the whole
population of Gay community in Malang, and they will be interview and observed.
Many homosexual men in Indonesia speak what they call bahasa gay gay language, a linguistic
phenomenon based upon bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Indonesias national language.
Bahasa gay, is also known by gay men and other Malang as bahasa banci, a closely related language
variety. Banci is a nationwide (and somewhat derogatory) term for male-to-female transvestites; two
well-known bahasa gay/banci variants of the term are binan and bencong (thus this language is also
called bahasa binan or bahasa bencong).
To date, the fundamental condition of bahasa gays existence is that although some terms transform
words from local languages such as Javanese, at the overall grammatical level bahasa gay is always
based on Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia), the national vernacular.
Although Indonesia has considerable linguistic diversity, bahasa gay is a self-consciously nationwide
way of speaking. All of the derivational patterns used to produce bahasa gay lexemes originated in
one region of Malang but became nationally distributed through gay social networks. The languages
fundamental logic is not that of alterity but of creative transformation of a dominant state discourse. It
is a conscious (and often humorous) language game.
Derivation
Competence in bahasa gay includes intonation, pragmatics, and ideology about bahasa gay itself,
but what gay men (and those who appropriate bahasa gay) nd most salient is lexicon. This
lexicon, however, is more than just a collection of words; it is a set of patterned derivational
processes that together constitute a language game. True uency is signaled not just by knowing
vocabulary but by knowing the processes and being able to coin neologisms oneself.
There are several ways to create gay terms. Since the mid-1990s, the most popular process
is syllabic substitution, where a word replaces a standard Indonesian word with which it shares a
syllable (typically the rst syllable). For instance, tidak no, not is replaced by tintatint (see Table
below).
Syllabic substitution in bahasa gay
Bahasa gay
term
Original meaning
Replaces
Indonesia term
ampun
meaning
in set phrase
ya
ampun
(oh my God!)
amplop
envelope
Balikpapan
city
in kembali
Kalimantan
British
becak
Broadcasting
Corporation
cough medicine
bodoh
youre welcome
to kiss
mbr
brand
toothpaste
pail,bucket
jelita
BBC
bodrex
ciptadent
of cium
pedicab
stupid
emang
indeed
lovely
jelek
bad
lapangan
Open eld
lapar
hungry
Makassar
city in Sulawesi
makan
to eat
mawar
rose
mau
to want
Polonia
to go home
semangka
sutra
silk
sudah
already
tinta
Tint
tidak
no
Samarinda
youre welcome
to like
Two other derivational processes are related to syllabic substitution. The rst isneologism (Table
below), in which the Indonesian term is replaced by a form that shares the same rst syllable or
sound but does not have a prior meaning of its own. Only a handful ofbahasa gay terms originate in
this manner; bahasa gay is a language of transformation.
akika
aku
cuco
cakep
jahara
jahat
Meaning
I (familiar)
handsome
evil
The second process is semantic shift, whereby an Indonesian term is given a new meaning
(Table below). Semantic shifting is a feature of non-gay urban language as well, where it is
termed plesetan (Chambert-Loir 1984; Oetomo 2001).
fusillade
goreng
Fry
kucing
cat
Another important derivational process in bahasa gay is sufxation and vowel shift (Table below),
which is usually used to transform a standard Indonesian term but occasionally involves a bahasa
gay item, a local language term, or an English loanword.
Meaning
banci
berapa
how much?
dandan
put on makeup
homo
Homosexual
lelaki
Man
loco
Masturbate
brpong
dndong or dndes
hmong
lkong or lkes
lcong, lces, or lci
pres
pura-pura
Pretend
sakit
terjadi
to have happened
terjedong
The most common sufxes are ong and es. Dede Oetomo suggests that sufxation and vowel
shift rst appeared in Jakarta and areas most directly inuenced by the Jakartan dialect of
Indonesian; he also notes that a few terms of -ong shifting, namely bencong, frombanci male
transvestite, and nepsong, from napsu desire, appear to have come into existence before bahasa
gay took form (2001:62). As in the case of all other derivational processes forbahasa gay, the most
common kinds of transformed words are nouns and adjectives.
With -in- inxing, the inx -in- is inserted between the consonant and vowel of every syllable, usually
with a shortening of the product so that it becomes two syllables long (Oetomo 1999:28).
Thus banci becomes binancini, which becomes binan. See table below:
Indonesian or
bahasa gay term
Meaning
banci
berapa
how much?
dandan
put on makeup
homo
Homosexual
lelaki
Man
loco
Masturbate
pura-pura
Pretend
sakit
terjadi
to have happened
binerinapina
dinandinan
hinomino
linakini
linocino
pinurina pinurina
tinerjinadini
Intonation
Though far less emphasized than patterned lexicon, speaking in what is considered to be an
effeminate manner is also sometimes asserted by gay men to be indicative of bahasa gay. By
effeminate (standard Indonesian kewanitaan or feminin; bahasa gay terms includengondhek, megol,
kriting curly), these men refer to the high-pitched tone and rising utterancenal intonation that
Indonesians associate with images of demure femininity.
3.3
Data Collection
As it said before, as a primary data, the data are collected through interview and observation.
When interviewing the event will be conducted under a recorded situation of when the informants
answer the questions being asked in addition, field note will be created ( appendix 1 ). It is page in
begining of interview notes with information such as date, place characteristics, and moment of the
interview, which give contribution when re-reading and making senses of the notes.
The instrument of interview is an interview guide and using an informal interview, informal interview
used because punk member will not answer the question if they know that the have been
interviewed. The major line of instrument consist :
1.
1.
Hair cut
Greeting
Accessories
Dance
Lips Sing
Gay for Pays
Salon
Model
Fitness
Design
The observer observe Gay member reaction and also the freguency of the intrument happen,
Beside that interview and obsevation as the main instrument in collecting data,written materials
such as books on sociolinguistics and other related sources will be treated as secondary data.
(Appendix 3)
Inventory
First step observer makes notes all the data obtained from the recorded words, interview and
observation.
2.
3.
CHAPTER IV
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
On this chapter the writer presents the result of the research and describe qualitatively in the
form of result and discussion. This result and discussion just describe the slang of Gay community
in Malang.
The result is written in the form of language, those are words or phrases typically made up of short
lived coinages and figure of speech that are in place of standard terms for the sake of added
raciness,humor, irreverence, deliberately used or othereffect (Nirmalasari excerpted Al
wasilah,1988).
To easier understanding, the inventory result differentiated into:
1.
Abbreviation
Old word with new meaning
Word coinage
Symbols and gestures
Word indicating abuse
The point is, what we are reported in this result and discussion chapter is the result obtained
from observation and interview with the members of Gay community in Malang.
4.1. RESULT
As for some of the results that I gets from the research among of gay communities in apoor
about gay language in the poor in general as follows :
abbreviation
meaning
A.D
D.I.Y
F.O
SI-AL
IJO or BEGUT
G.N.D
R4F
S.E
T.M and A.R
IGAMA
Kayangan
Enjoy
Harajhuku
Ngeber
Rayap
Stelan
Word coinages
Banger
Corosenmu
Mooshing
Ooi...Ooi...Ooi...
4.2. DISCUSSION
Gay community in Malang often speaks strange words; the following words list is concerned
primarily with present-day term of Gay community in Malang.
4.2.1
A.D
It stands for Asal Dadi. It refers to some gay lipsing that had bad performances on a stage.
When gays see bad performence on stage he mumbledkok bis kota dibawaken kasindang!
(How could an A.D like that brought here!)
D.I.Y
It stands for Do It Your self. It is kinds of suggestion to be creactive especially in making song and
avoiding singing contract with capitalist recording company, because they only think about profit
oriented.
It is use when a gay remained his friend not to imitate the green day or offspring career. He said
terusan hanglekir D.I.Y jangkar tarore green day bow!
(Go on D.I.Y do not imitate green day)
E.D
It is stand for Extreme Decay, this word for those who always make violence on a shows.
When in a gay music show one of the audience suddenly punched another one, a gay
shoutedAwas E.D.
IJO or BEGUT
Ijo or Begut stands for drugs ore dope, sometimes secretly they consume drug alone or together,
they consume this not just for losing their stress or problem but also if they find an idea for their song
and sometimes they consume drug to solve their problem.
When gays come to a stage, they usually use drugs, when they offering drugs they said: kawanua
kerajaan IJO ta kosgoro?
(Do you want IJO or nothing?)
And maybe when they need some drugs they usually said:akika tambuhan belalang BEGUT bow)
(Give me some money to buy BEGUT!)
G.N.D
It stand for Gay NOT Dead, this word commonly used on some concert to cheer up the situation ot to
an honor to gay community.
They said to their friends:terusan hangkelir bow, G.N.D jangkar kuatir!
(Dont worry guys, G.N.D !)
R4F
It stands for Riot For Freedom. In expressing their offensive felling, they often use this term in the
form of articles. They think that capitalism block them in jail. Government, in their opinion is only a
machine not an independent system. With interference of government may change their regulation
without thinking what the citizen really needs.
S.E
It stand for Straight Edge, it is kind of what gay believe, this is the highest level of gay. it is what
igama believe. In this case another member must understand him and not force him to consume
what he reject in the name of equality that the community always praise.
T.M and A.R
T.M stand for Topi Miring and A.R stand for Arak kind for liquor brand name that usually consumed
by gay community in Malang. This activity can not be avoided since the treat as a medium of
gathering and share they are feeling of togetherness. When they toast, they always
say Equality, mean that they are one and together.
They said like this when they one to Consume it:Ayo bow acar- acar, belalang T.M ambe A.R
(Hi guys what about if we buy T.M and A.R)
4.2.2 Description of old words or phrases that has new meaning
Igama
This word is referred to the gay head quarters. The place for reunion and hang out together, it just
like their home and the place that their values legally here.
The word used when a gay want to make appointment with another gay friends, he said: sebentong
kete nang Igama jantung lupita jones bow!
(See you later in Igama guys)
Kayangan
The gays call the rich man or people from high community class as a Kayangan, because they hate
capitalist, therefore they do not like any luxurious things as: Boutique, pubs, and those who not care
to grass root.
When they see a rich men they said:sisop tinta bisikan dadi kayangan, biasaranya njalok toknang
organda tubang .
(Who can not be a kayangan, they only spend their parents money without working.)
Enjoy
This word reffered to gay who using drugs.
When they know that one of his friends using drugs they said:kawanua enjoy tah sekarnia?
(Are you enjoy right now?)
Harajhuku
It referred to one of gay haircut, it came from one of Japan called harajhuku, the harajhuku have
special haircut, middle of hair stands up and the left side and the right side bald.
They said like this:Harajhuku kawanua bagaskara bow
(Your harajhuku is cool man)
Ngeber
The meaning of this word is they live on the street, sleep, survival in the street, they tried to realize
that is not easy live in the world, we got to do anything to survive if we live on the street and accept
that street is their home.
If they want to do this, they said:Sabtu ngeber nang SI-AL yuk
(Hey, what about ngeber on SI-AL Saturday)
Rayap
It is the world for gay who did not understand what the real gay is, what the essential think of gay,
they join gay without knowing the aim of gay and without knowing the way of live of gay. That is
rebellion of the social order of community.
The word was used when a gay saw a new member, he said:belajaro,jangkar dadi rayap terusan
hanglekir!
(Keep learning, do not be rayap forever)
Stelan
It is stand for gay fashion and accessories that they wear, like haircut, jeans,boots, chances and
another complite gay fashion.
They used this word like this:jangkar lupita jones laguna nondra acar- acar pakarena stelan
semuara!
(We go to concert wearing stelan, do not forget it)
4.2.3 Word Coinages
Banger
It is a kind of dance in which gay in front of a stage bump their shoulder together suddenly when a
song comes to a refrein phase (Usually after bending their knees fro a fiew second).
When there was a concert and they want to dance, gays said:Nek banger seng bagaskara bow!
(lets make make a great banger guys)
Corosen
It is like harajhuku haircut in which hair arranged so that resembles Niles or Durian.
The word was used when a gay saw a haircut, he said:Corosen kawanua bagaskara bow
(Great corosen guys)
Mooshing
It is kind of stage diving, when one of the musicians suddenly jump into crowd audiences and the
audiences catch him directly so that he is not hurt.
The word was used when there was a music concert and one of the gays said:sing mooshing
subentra akika ae bow
(Let me do the mooshing guys)
Ooi...Ooi...Ooi
It is kind of greeting for gay community, when they meet one each other they says hello with this
expressions. They have to mention Ooi...three times,this greeting mean: Liberty, Equality and Unity
4.2.4 Symbols and Gestures
A- symbols
This symbols is sign for Gay area, this symbols is a sign for another member of gay that this is the
igama of gay community, so the member of gay can hang out together and reunion in this place.
Crossing hand
If a gay does not want to drink liquor in a certain gathering he can reject the invitation by crossing his
hand and indicating that he is tempting to praise straight edge believe.
Shake hand and Click
One way to indicated a gay is by shake hand and click; they always do this if they meet one another
in every place.
Spiting
Some gay will spit to the stage when a street gay band performs their songs. They want to remind
them that they can come on the stage because they are from street. They have to not forget that. On
the other hand a radical street gay will spit on the ground when they meet the have. It is just like a
beggar party on china called Kaipang. The action took place when gay spitted the musician on a
stage.
Three shouting fingers
This one way to indicated a gay is by pointing thumb. Forefinger and middle finger together. It means
three praises they believe: Liberty, Equality, and Unity. they do this every time they meet and every
place they meet.
X Tattoo
Usually a punker make an X- tattoo on his arm indicating that he is from straight edge believe.
Therefore, he must be free from drugs, alcohol, free sex and meat. In this case,another member
have to respect what he believe and not to force him to consume what he rejected.
10 Holes boot
Numbers of holes on boots indicated proffesion, ten holes boot is for those who come from various
proffesion or white collars workers such as: stundents, workers, or even politicians.
4.2.5 Word or phrases indicating an abuse
Anjing penjaga
The word referred to the army and policeman, because in gay opinions cop and armed force just like
a dog who always do what the master want, they always follow what the commander orders even
they have to ignore the human right.
The phrase was used when some gay a policeman or an army cross a head, they said: bow lekma
adinda anjing penjaga liwat! (look guys Anjing penjaga cross a head!)
Anti Bonek
This word referred to the Arema football supporters called Bonek who always make riot and chaos
wherever they came. They always fight with another supporters from other football club and make
citizens afraid to do their activities. On gay community in Malang, the member of gay was fought with
Bonek at SI- AL ones.
Anti Coca-cola
Anti Kapitalis
Anti MC.Donald
The slogan for capitalism industries, gay opinion is that capitalist only think about profit without care
about their employees right and only exploited them. So that way they praise Anti Capitalism.
Trendy Bangsat
It stand for fashoin style, gay show their anger toward fashion style, they think that buying expensive
clothes useless because many people died in poverty and hunger. They hate people who always
stylish and modish because they only spend money without thinking surrounding. So that why they
call people like that as Old Fashoin Freaks and because of that to the stelan of gay is always
unfashionable.
4.3
their society with other people, on this distinguish social context and socially branded they fight
together on one society to praise what they believe.
Observer classify the language usage in three social context,
distinguish they existence with other societies and they are not allowed other people to insult or
annoy their activities, they want exclusiveness to show their power and solidarity. Therefore slang
word like igama, scene, stelan, etc created by them. Solidarity when living on the street and
underground sometimes make gay doing something secretly even against the law. Some forbidden
act ivies like consuming liquors and drugs they do with hidden. That is way they create words like
IJO, T.M or A.R to hide their activities from policeman or other officer.
To show their power the member who praise gay and gay be the way of live, words like trendy
bangsat, anjing penjaga, rayap and other abuses word used to hide what they really said, what the
real meaning of what they said. Sometimes the word used to avoid chaos with other members or
other society and maybe the worst thing if they have been catching by police officer because what
they do.
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
The conclusion of the analysis describe the slang characterized by the Gay community in
Malang can be simplicity concluded that:
5.1. The slang words employed by the Gay community in Malang
1. The words or phrases are in the form of abbreviation.
The Gay community in Malang tends to simple words or phrases in their dayly conversation to hide
the real meaning for their activities. Example. A.D stand for asal dadi, even the other people did not
understand what they said but it is meaningful for them. They tried to hide forbidden activities with
this word to avoid other people and officer, for example like IJO,Begut,T.M and A.R.
2. The second category of the slang is to give old words news meaning. Creatively of the Gay to use
certain words or phrases to rebirth new meaning such as Scene is a real or Imagined place where
something happens.
3. The third category is to coin new words.
A word like Ooi... three times which considering three praises they shout: Liberty, Equality, and Unity.
It is considered as a necessity fo Gay to greet another member.
4. For some reasons, the Gay posses some symbols and gestures to mark their identity. Thats why the
fourth categories discuss about those words. A symbol like A or X- Tattoo for Gay is to show that they
are from what division of Gay. So from other division can understand what the way of live he praise,
like a straight Edge believe.
5. The final category is words or phrases as an abuse. Gay is extreme societies that always say
and shout what they hate directly, because they always fight for three praises that they believe ;
Liberty, Equality, Unity. The live in social people who dont like them or even isolating them, and they
have to fight what they believe is right. A word like Anjing Penjaga is mean to remind the officer that
they are like a dog that always follows what master instruction. And other words like Antis Slogan or
Trendy bangsat to remind of all the people that many people suffer because our greedy and a lot of
people dies because capitalism and racialism.
5.2
5.3
act like consuming liquors and drugs they do with hidden way. Thats why they create words like IJO,
T.M or A.R to hide their activities from policeman or other officer.
Power, the member who praise Gay and Gay be the way of live, words like trendy bangsat, anjing
penjaga, rayap, FO and other abuses word used to hide what they really said, what the real meaning
of what they said. Therefore Gay of community in Malang created slang words.
5.4
Suggestion
The writer realizes that this thesis is not complete and perfect because there are some
weaknesses in writing this thesis caused by the limited references. There are still many problems
about slang of gay community in Malang that are not discussed yet. Consequently, it will be very
interesting and useful for other students to discover more about those specific problems in their
thesis.
The writer suggests that this thesis is presented because of the writer knowing about slang of gay
communty in Malang which is often used by her. As an gay, he hopes that slang of gay will make a
progress into the positive one so that it is not only used by specific groups of a community but also
becomes a special symbol of gay wherever they are. Futhermore, it is expected more the possibility
of creating such dictionary which focus on slang of gay community in Malang like the dictionary of
slang, and form this thesis too, he hopes that next time there come up some more perfect study of
the topic.