PEMBENTUKAN WAKAMONO KOTOBA DENGAN UNSUR MAZEGAKI PADA POSTINGAN DI SOSIAL MEDIA X

Abstract

This research aims to analyze wakamono kotoba containing katakana and kanji elements on social media X. This is because influenced by developments and the massive use of social media. The phenomenon that occurs is the emergence of language variations, one of them is the variation in the formation of wakamono kotoba. The use of wakamono kotoba by teenagers as a language in a group seems friendly and relaxed. As a result, it makes foreign language learners not familiar because 2 types of Japanese letters, which are kanji and katakana become 1 word, and this formation is rarely taught in language textbooks. The methods used by the author in analyzing the data are the observation method and the qualitative descriptive research method with the data source from the post on social media X. In the results of this research, the author found the process of forming wakamono kotoba based on word class, there are shortening of words (shouryakugo), English-based (gairaigo), and writing hiragana words into katakana. The meaning of wakamono kotoba based on elements are based meaning and the extended meaning of the words that form it.