Yaqin, Ainul. 2024. The Word Formation Processes Of English Slang Word In “The Car” Song Album By Arctic Monkey. Thesis. Departmen of English Language Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah. IAIN Kediri. Advisor: (1) Nur Afifi, M.App.Ling., Ph.D and (2) Yogi Rohana, M.Hum. Keywords : Word Formation, Slang Word, Song. This research will discuss about how slang words are formed, so people that listening to song or not can be informed how slang words are formed, furthermore can understand the meaning. This research will analyze the types of slang used in the song lyrics and identifies how these words can be formed. The researcher chooses songs in “The Car” album of Arctic Monkey’s song as the object of study because seeing that the indie rock song genre is now more favored by generation Alpha and shows popular music with interesting songs. Besides, researchers have several reasons to analyze this study. This research is a descriptive qualitative research method. The descriptive qualitative research method was used to analyze song lyric of the “The Car” album songs by Arctic Monkey’s. In this research, the researcher in order to find out the types of word formation and the meaning of slang word for readers. This research was categorized as a study of morphology which is about internal structure of words. The analysis revealed a total of 35 slang words used throughout the album. The identified slang words were formed through seven different word formation processes. These processes include cliticization, derivation, conversion, compounding, borrowing, coinage, and clipping. Each process plays a distinct role in shaping the slang vocabulary used in the lyrics. Cliticization was found in five slang words, where words are shortened by attaching reduced forms to adjacent words. Derivation, which involves creating new words by adding prefixes or suffixes, was used only once

YAQIN , M. AINUL .   (2025). The Word Formation Processes Of English Slang Word In “The Car” Song Album By Arctic Monkey. IAIN Kediri