Selecting the Research Questions Reviewing Related Literature
35 where they were going to go. But, instead of answering
Susan’s question, Rayna insisted that Susan did not need to know
Rayna’s business. She also added that Susan’s job was only for guarding her. As a spy who needed to know all of the
information, Susan tried to convince Rayna that she needed to know about where and who they were going to meet to make her guarding more effective. She added
dumbass as an insult to Rayna to show that she was such a dumb person for not telling Susan about what they were going to do. If Rayna did not tell Susan, then
Susan could not guard her effectively and the effect was probably Rayna might die. As a result, she would be a very dumb person who wanted to die only because
of not telling the information.
[5] Ford :Help me out
Susan :You motherfucker Im gonna report you to HR. 01:56:32
In the dialogue above, Susan and Ford argued when they were hanging in the bottom of the helicopter see Appendix, p. 69. Susan was trying to catch
Deluca who escaped with the nuclear bomb using the helicopter. Susan jumped into the bottom part of the helicopter when Deluca fled the helicopter, but
suddenly Ford jumped into Susan and hung in Sus an’s legs. He said that he
wanted to take Deluca down. The fact was Ford just made Susan became harder to climb up while Ford wa
s trying to climb up through Susan’s body. Therefore, Susan used a taboo word motherfucker to swear towards Ford in order to abuse
Ford’s attitude.
[6] Nicola : I guess that CIA training isnt what it used to be.
Susan : I guess youre right, asshole. 00:46:57
36 Example 6 happened between Nicola and Susan when they were fighting
see Appendix, p. 55. Nicola was a man who worked for Deluca. His duty was to kill Ford, one of the CIA agents. When Nicole switched
Ford’s bag with a bag of bomb, Susan saw it and she tried to tell Ford. Her action was photographed by
Nicole. As a passive agent who was ordered to watch and report, Susan should not make any contact with the enemies. Therefore, if Nicole brought her photo to
Deluca her undercover would be revealed. Therefore, Susan tried to catch Nicole and followed him into a building. There, Nicole pushed Susan and he wanted to
stab Susan using a knife. When Susan aimed to shoot him, her ammo was out from her gun. Nicole mocked CIA
’s ability based on Susan’s action. Susan replied Nicole by using name-calling asshole because she got angry
over Nicole’s statement. After that, she showed her real skill to fight, even though it had been
ten years she did not get the field training, Susan was still excellent in fighting. The word asshole is categorized as abusive swear word because it uses name-
calling especially the taboo word asshole to replace Anton’s name.