Swardspeak as a Communication Medium Among Education Students in a State University

John Allen F. Gregorio, Sairah Mae R. Briol, Reena Marie B. Miraflores & Ersyl T. Biray

Volume 2 Issue 2 December 2022

Abstract

This descriptive study identified the profile, common swardspeak and frequency of their use, and the situations of usage among the Bachelor of Secondary Education students in a state university during the academic year 2020-2021. Thirty (30) randomly selected respondents supplied the data through a survey questionnaire, which was analyzed using frequency count and percentage. Results showed that most of the students who use swardspeak are female within the age range of 19-22 years old. The most common swardspeak used are afam, akeno/aketch/akis, awra, baboosh, beks/vaklangtow, bonak/junakis, bongga, borlog, chaka/shonget, char/charot/chos, cheka/chika, chosera/chusera, churva, daks, dites/ditey, eclavu, eme/keme, ganern, gora/gorabels, gurl, Hagardo Versoza, hanash, imas, juntis/juntils, juts, kabog, kalerki/nakakalurky, keribels/keriboomboom/keri lang, kiber, knowangji, krayola, lafang, Lotlot/Lotlot De Leon, mamsh/momshee/mudra/mudrakels, murayta, pagoda, pakak, payola, pudra, shala, sinetch/sinetchitey, sizt, shokot, shonga/shunga, shupatid, spyokang, Tom Jones, waley/wis/wit/wiz, warla, and Winwin Marquez. Most of these swardspeak are sometimes used in public places with friends, and in instances or situations where they have to go with or join a group. These cross-sectional findings can affect further studies as this swardspeak can be enhanced as this generation goes out and come up with sets of new words.

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Gregorio, J.F., Briol, S.R., Miraflores, R.B. & Biray E.T. (2022). Swardspeak as a Communication Medium Among Education Students in a State University. The Research Probe, Volume 2 Issue 2, pp. 20 - 24.