Nowadays, the development of language is so vast where new words
created every day. One of developments of language is bahasa gaul, an informal
words and idioms which spoken by certain community. It used to obscure the real
meaning so that anyone who doesn?t belong to the group can not understand. The
writer conduct a reserach on bahasa gaul which is spoken by the hair dressers
because they use it everday even while they are working. The writer focuses on its
word-formation processes because the writer really wants to know how the hair
dressers create a new words.
In this research the writer use the word formation processes as presented by
George Yule (1985). Those word formation processes are coinage,borrowing,
compounding,blending, clipping, back formation, conversion, acronym, affixation
and multiple processes. The writer uses the qualitative approach, and use the
words in bahasa gaul used by the hair dressers as her primarily source of
data.Through this reserach, the writers find that words in bahasa gaul have a
certain pattern. They use a word formation processes such as acronym, blending,
clipping, affixation, borrowing, and multiple processes. She also finds the certain
pattern which are classified as non word formation processes such as adapting
slang pattern in the eighties used by the teenagers and homosexuals, changing the
first vowel and he end of root, preserving the consonant of the old word,
preserving the sound at the beginning of the old word, changing the sounds of last
vowel and the use -si in front of Javanese root. These regular pattern used by the
hair dressers are classified into non word formation processes.