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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelHomosexuals show their identity and existence through language. They
often produce and create new terms among them. The new terms called slang that
they create are not usually comprehended by the society. Slang term was created
through a linguistic process, which is called word formation process. Therefore, I
am interested in investigating homosexuals? utterance to know what kinds of
slang words are produced by them, what types of word formation processes are
applied, and which predominant type of word formation processes is used in those
homosexuals slang words. In this research I apply the theory of morphology,
especially word formation processes. I used Yule?s classification (1996), as the
major theory. This theory is supported by gay word formation theory (1999) and
Indonesian word formation theory by Chaer (2003). I got the data from three
homosexuals in Surabaya considering all slang words occurring in their
communication. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The finding
shows that from the 69 slang words, which are found in the three homosexuals?
utterances, there are nine patterns forming the slang words and the most frequent
word formation processes is derivation using especially infix [- in-]. This fact
shows that the homosexuals? community likes to use derivation to form their slang
words.