Slang Language in Crank II: High Voltage Movie Based on Social Dimension

The common meaning about Sociolinguistics is the study about social and linguistic. It contains several aspects of society, such as: cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used and the effects of language use on society. The slang expression which the writer analyses has its own characteristic where everybody cannot directly know the meaning which implicitly contained in a slang word uttered and that thing will try to be analyzed by the writer. In the aspect of sociolinguistics, the purpose of analyzing a language variety that occurs in society is to get deeper understanding and to know the meaning that implied in speech act so the main message will be revealed. In this paper, the writer uses movie of Crank II: High Voltage as the media which is aimed at the meaning of slang expression based on the social dimensions aspect. The social dimension includes four categorizations, they are: social distance scale, a status scale, a formality scale and functional scales. After the writer translates the meaning of slang expression then, the writer classifies into each of the social dimension. As the finding, the writer has found for about twenty four slang expressions within this movie