Research Setting Research Subject Instruments and Data Gathering Technique

40 Having got the data, the writer then analyzed the data. This part was the most challenging part the writer dealt with. In analyzing the data, the writer made the theories as the bases. The texts were analyzed using the theories from different linguists and experts. The theories were also contested and compared. After analyzing the data, the next step the writer conducted was interpreting the findings and stating conclusion. The writer presented his interpretation and explanation in narrative form. While interpreting the findings, the writer also stated some conclusions about what the writer had analyzed. This part came to whether or not the writer questions be best answered. Having interpreted the findings, the writer then reported the result. Since the writer conducted a qualitative study, the data presented is in form of expositional explanation. 41 CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION This chapter is divided into two sections. The first section presents the references and senses found in each utterance containing taboo words and swear words in Carlin‟s monologue Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television to answer the research question number one. The references and senses found include six themes i.e. profanity, sexual activity, bodily effluvia, intimated part of the body, ancestral allusion, and name of animal. The second section describes how the taboo words and swear words are used in this monologue to answer the research question number two. This section employs Pinker‟s typology of swearing i.e. descriptively, idiomatically, abusively, emphatically, and cathartically.

4.1. The References and Senses of the Taboo Words and Swear Words

This section presents concisely the references and senses of the taboo words and swear words found in Carlin‟s monologue Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television . The references and senses are classified based on the theme to which they belong.