Abstract:
Utari, Sri. 1302050015 “Jargon Used by Judges in Stand Up Comedy
Academy”. Skripsi. English Education Program Faculty of Teachers
Training and Education. University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara.
Medan. 2017.
This research was aimed to describe the jargon used by judges in stand up
comedy academy. The objectives of this research were to find out what jargon
used by judges in stand up comedy academy, to find out the meaning of jargons
used by judges in stand up comedy academy, to describe the word-formation
process of jargons used by judges in stand up comedy academy. This research
applied descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data taken from
vidio.com by using a recording of video “Stand Up Comedy Academy in
Indosiar” especially in episode to sixteen which focused to judges, the form of
jargons were words or phrases that published on 19 until 22 October 2015. The
findings of this research were found 20 jargons used by judges in stand up
comedy academy, such as act out, beat, bomb, callback, closing line, comedian,
comic, joke, lpm, m.c, one liner, open mike, opening line, premise, punch,
punchline, riffing, set, setup, and timming. Every jargon used by judges in stand
up comedy academy were different meaning. The word-formation process of
jargon used by judges in stand up comedy academy consists 4 types that were the
occurances of compounding was 8, the occurances of acronyms was 2, the
occurances of conversion was 2, and the occurances of borrowing was 8.
