RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa Vol. 5, No. 2 Oktober 2019, Page 159-167 P-ISSN: 2406-9019 E-ISSN: 2443-0668 Available Online at https://ejournal.warmadewa.ac.id/index.php/jret Form, Meaning and Function of Argot in French Rap Song: Sociolinguistics Study Aisyah Nadila Andree, Nany Ismail and Nani Darmayanti Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung-Indonesia aisyahnadila94@gmail.com Received: 30/07/2019 Revised: 05/10/2019 Published: 15/10/2019 How to cite (in APA style): Andree, A. N., Ismail, N., & Darmayanti, N. (2019). Form, Meaning and Function of Argot in French Rap Song: Sociolinguistics Study. RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa, 5(2), 159-167. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/ jr.5.2.1214.159-167 Abstract-Music is one of the way to express emotions, opinions, and also criticism. The lyrics helps us to communicate, and spread its story. Argot in rap song is a sociolinguistic phenomenon that spreads in all languages, including French. The author conducted this study with the aim of knowing the formation of argot used, the meaning behind, and what correlation it has with situation in Marseille. The writer uses descriptive analysis method and theories that support this research are the theory of sociolinguistics and the process of forming argot Calvet (1994), as well as the theory of meaning Baylon and Mignot (1995). The conclusion contains apocope, apheresis, suffixation, and metonymy. The most uses type of formation is metonym. Metonym can deliver a figurative meaning to achieve dramatic effect, but still maintain its secretive nature. Argot has a relation with how singer express their situation and condition within their lyrics. Keywords: Crime; Rap; The use of Argot I. INTRODUCTION Language is a form of social behavior that used by humans. Humans are social objects, so language can be a media to observe human interaction. Difference status or social groups, differences in educational background, economic level, and also differences in the place of birth of particular individual will affect the speech of that individual. Even with the level of familiarity will affect someone's speech, a teenager will speak with different word choices when talking with their parents or when talking with their peers. These are manifestations of language in observable social matrices. This form of speech is a manifestation of the differences in socio- cultural, economic, background, and so on. An individual has his own way of speaking, referred to as idiolect. This individual can also use regional dialects based on the region or country where he came from, or use the social dialect that he uses in certain social groups called sociolect. Idiolect, dialect, and sosiolect are a language variations that can be observed from someone's speech. In this study, the language variety that will be observed is sociolect. Sosiolect is generally defined as a variation of speech in a community, a socio- cultural group, or a group based on age ( Marie- Louise. Moreau, 1997). One of the form of sosiolect is professional jargon, also known as argot. Argot himself belongs to the sociolect category that was created specifically by certain social groups, there is some type of argot called criminal argot, argot for children, army for argot, and so on. Thus, argot indirectly becomes a person's identity regarding his social background. (Dubois, 2002) defines argot as follows: L’argot est un dialecte social réduit au lexique, de caractère parasite (…), employé RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa 2019 CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License Page 159