Bodily Effluvia The References and Senses of the Taboo Words and Swear Words

47 punishment, damnation. In the context of this utterance, those three taboo words interpretatively own their literal meaning. This utterance is also constative which means it is a locution since it does not perform illocutionary force, further more the do not have emotive function. 3 “ The original seven words were, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits .” This utterance contains all taboo words banned by FCC to be featured in public airwaves. The word shit and piss belong to bodily effluvia theme. Although these two words share the same theme, the word shit is considered more indecent than piss since it is more solid. The word cunt and tits belongs to intimated part of the body theme. Meanwhile, the word fuck, motherfucker, and cocksucker belong to sexual theme. This utterance is a locution and has no illocutionary force. In other word Carlin is merely doing an act of saying and no act in saying illocution. 4 “ And now the first thing that we noticed was that word fuck was really repeated in there because the word motherfucker is a compound word and its another form of the word fuck .” In this utterance Carlin explains morphologically the word fuck and motherfucker . It makes sense since the word motherfucker, as well as the word fuck , belong to sexual theme. However, the word motherfucker is considered obscene. Hughes states that this word represents the violation of the most extreme sexual taboo and was claimed as the wicked term p. 320. From this idea, it can be derived that the word motherfucker refers to “person engaged in 48 an incestuous activity”. This word might be highly offensive if it is used a swear word, but in this utterance this word, as well as the word fuck, is only taboo word which does not carry emotive function and is uttered plainly. The reference of the word fuck in this utterance is “copulation” and the word motherfucker literally refers to “person who does incestuous act” Sheidlower, 2009; Hughes, 2006. All taboo words in this utterance are considered constative since the words are uttered with no intention to abuse or offend. This utterance contains no illocutionary force. Yet, this utterance has also perlocutionary effect since the audiences laugh upon hearing such taboo words delivered in a morphological way. Since then, those taboo words are not delivered in an offensive way. 5 “Also, cocksucker is a compound word and neither half of that is really dirty.” This utterance is quite similar with the previous utterance in which Carlin discusses taboo words morphologically. This word literally means “person engaged in fellatio” and belongs to sexual activity theme. Hughes notes that this word may be also included in the homosexual theme because it is said that the term is “said of either sex” and has been generalized term of abuse in United States p. 237. According to Green 1993, this word is an insult which emerged in 19 th century. Then Carlin tries to separate each composing word. Carlin leads the audiences into this discussion presumably as the effort to desensitize the word Hunt, 2009. Carlin then continued the explanation more morphologically in the next sentence: “The word -- the half sucker thats merely