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ABSTRACT
This article entitled “The forms of jargons”. Jargon is specific vocabularies in a particular field. Jargon terms are related
to human environments, experiences, and daily activities. The aim of the study is to analyze jargon words. The
qualitative method research was used in this study, descriptive meaning is written into explanations.
KEYWORDS
Sociolinguistics, jargons, slang words, specific vocabulary.
INTRODUCTION
People live in a world with a different society and
language variety. They use various languages which
depend on the particular situation, profession, or
education. In this case, the language is closely related
to the people of an area as subjects or actors speak as
a means of communication and interact among the
groups with each other. As the case above, the study
about the relationship between language and society
of various functions of language in society is called
sociolinguistics.
Wardhaugh (2006, p.10) mentions that there is
possible relationship between language and society
where the structure may either influence or determine
linguistic structure and or behavior or the opposite
way.
Further
Wardhaugh
points
out
that
sociolinguistics explores language and society. It will
influence each other.
Literature review. Jargon is also assumed as a language
variety containing a set of unique vocabulary that is
Research Article
THE FORMS OF JARGONS
Submission Date:
September 15, 2023,
Accepted Date:
September 20, 2023,
Published Date:
September 25, 2023
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Tashkent State Named After Alisher Navoi University Of Uzbek Language And Literature Foundation Doctoral
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used by people who have interest, class (social status),
or the same position in a certain area, for instance in a
working area. In the working area, there are so many
professions that used jargon for example, such as:
politicians, police, doctors, etc. They have their own
jargon and use it in their file in order to make their
communication easier. It is assumed that jargon is used
by many communities in different fields.
Jargon was not a strange word again in this era. It
refers to the specialized language of a professional or
occupational group (Nordquist, 2019). It was used by
many professionals in the hospitality industry,
especially in the cruise line. Then it became a common
thing to use in communication. As one of the language
variations, jargon appeared in many variations of
words, phrases, abbreviations, and also acronyms. It is
the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a
particular trade, profession, or group such as doctors
and engineers in their respective job (Patoko and
Yazdanifard, 2014). It made many industries or
institutions able to create their jargon. The cruise line
industries had their word in a specific meaning. It
represented a meaning known by the people in the
industry. It increased the possibility that many cruise
lines had some different jargon expressions from the
other cruise lines. Therefore it increased the number of
jargon. Jargon is the language used by a group or a
specific profession in specialized terms (Wright, 2010).
It ma
de a term of word’s combination or shortening
form of a phrase that represented a special meaning. It
was an important thing to use jargon in the cruise line,
especially for the professional. One of the elements in
the organizational culture of any enterprise is jargon
(Rebrina and Generalova, 2019). It became the culture
of the organization once it is used in the cruise line too.
It made the complicated word easier to be
pronounced. Then the professional was able to say a
difficult word or a long phrase in the form of jargon
easily.
Discussion and result. Jargon appeared in many forms.
There were four forms of it. Those are words, phrases,
abbreviations, and acronyms (Seli, 2019) and (Halligan,
2004). The first form was the word jargon. It was
mostly used by a professional when they speak to the
other person. It was specific in word forms by it was
known by some of the people or in a group only. The
jargon in the word category reflected a condition in the
department of the hotel. Then it, in the phrase form,
was determined literarily word by word. It also had a
special meaning that known by a group of people only.
It also reflected a condition in a department and used
it in that department only. Then the jargon in the form
of an abbreviation. It, in the form of abbreviation,
formed a short form of one or more words. It made the
long-phrase became an abbreviation that represented
the same meaning as the full phrase. It was used by the
professional to say the expressions. The last was the
jargon in the form of an acronym. Principally, it, in the
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acronym form, had the same meaning as the
abbreviation form. Therefore, it, in the acronym form,
was much easier to be remembered and pronounced
because it took a word form. It rebuilt long and
complicated words for a phrase pronounced without
changing the meaning of the expression itself. This
study analyzed the jargon in a complete category such
as word, phrase, abbreviation, and also acronym form.
There were many jargon expressions on the cruise line.
The cruise line provided the guest with many kinds of
hotel services. The jargon expressions used in the
cruise line were quite similar to the jargon expression
in the hotel. The jargon was used by them to tell about
each position in the hotel like GM (General Manager),
HK (House Keeping), and CS (Cleaning Services). It was
used by them to call about the place in the hotel like FO
(Front Office) and Audit (Auditorium). It was also used
by them to name the hotel product like F&B (Food and
Beverage) and BRA (Best Rate Available). They used it
often in their daily communication through direct and
indirect also through written text. For example, it was
the jargon in the form of abbreviation. It was used by
them because “an abbreviation is a shortened form of
a word or phrase” (N
ordquist, 2019). As a result, the
people did not need to struggle in saying a complicated
word or a long-
phrase. “An abbreviation is a shortened
a word or phrase” (Andrew, 2017). It meant that the
meaning was similar even though in a different form.
Then t
here were four types of abbreviations. “The four
types of abbreviation are initialism, acronym,
shortening, and contraction” (Andrew, 2017). In this
research, the researcher decided to differentiate the
acronym from the types of abbreviations. It was
significant to do make data about the jargon
classification.
CONCLUSION
Jargon was a part of English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
Lesson. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) was an
approach to help the learner understood the English
Language that used in a specific profession. The word
and some expressions were different in each job.
“Each profession has a special word in the profession
that does not appear in other professions” (Juddin,
2017). Then in this ESP, this language was specific for
specific work only. The business emails, notes, and
memos jargon expressions used the jargon (Matthew,
2013). Jargon affected the ability to remember the
information. For example, “acronyms can improve
memorability” (Brad, 2015). It was useful for the
learner to become a professional. The professional
learn about the language to communicate a set of
professional skills and to perform particular job-related
functions (Fiorito, 2006). ESP had a close relationship
in teaching about the language in a specific profession.
The cruise line hotel operational division crews were
one of the occupations that had and used jargon in the
communication.
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