Psychological Motives Reasons for Swearing
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Capt.Dickson: You hear that? Thats you. Dont do it, man Jenko: Why?
Capt.Dickson: Keep that dirty dick in your pants. Jenko: Dirty?
Capt.Dickson: Dont fuck no students. Dont fuck no teachers. 00:13:49
Dialogue 22 was an example of linguistic motive. In that dialogue, Captain Dickson asked Jenko not to fuck anyone, but Jenko wanted to know the reason.
Captain Dickson answered that Jenko had to keep his dirty dick in his pants. The swear word dirty dick considered as linguistic motive, because the word dirty gave
emphasis on the swear word dick, so it was belonged to linguistic motives. 23
Schmidt : Now we have the wrong identities, you dumb-ass. Im in drama. I suck at drama. Its girly and embarrassing
Jenko : Oh, my God. Relax, dude. Who cares? I can fake my way through band practice and app chemistry for a few weeks
Schmidt : AP Chemistry. AP Chemistry. And, no, you cant, because you dont even know what its actually fucking called
Jenko : Its going to be fine. You go to my classes, and Im going to go to yours. 00:25:50
Dialogue 23 was another example of linguistic motives. In that dialogue, Schmidt argued with Jenko about their wrong identities. Schmidt was worried if
Jenko did not know anything about AP Chemistry, but Jenko did not think that it was something hard. Schmidt said that Jenko would not know about AP
Chemistry and why it was called AP Chemistry by saying “what it‟s actually
fucking called ”. The swear word fucking called belonged to linguistic motives
because the swear word fucking gave emphasis on called word.
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Schmidt : Youre the dealer? Youre the dealer guy? Jenko : Is that you?
Eric : Yep. Schmidt : So do you make the stuff or...
Eric : Do I look like a fucking scientist? No, I just sell it. 00:31:44
Dialogue 24 was part of conversation among Schmidt, Jenko and Eric. In that conversation, Schmidt and Jenko were going to buy some drugs from Eric.
Schmidt asked whether Eric was the dealer or not, he also asked whether he was the maker or he was only the seller. Eric answered that he sold the drugs only, he
also asked Schmidt and Jenko if he looked like a fucking scientist or not. Swear words fucking scientist considered as linguistic motives because swear word
fucking gave emphasis on scientist word. From the discussion above, the researcher thought that research question 1,
and research question 2 had been answered. The researcher found that there were 6 types of swear words and 3 reasons for swearing used by the main characters of
21
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Jump Street movie. To sum up, it could be noticed that the types and reasons for swearing were
related. The main characters of 21
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Jump Street movie had specific reasons for swearing when they uttered certain types of swear words. For instance, when
Jenko or Schmidt was angry or disappointed psychological motive, they will swear fuck taboo or obscenity, or shit scatology.
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