Humorous Swear Words Types of Swear Words in the Spy Movie

41 Unless youre so extreme that youve got a second dick... coming out of your hip 00:57:50 This conversation happened when Ford and Susan met in the event which attended by Rayna and Deluca see Appendix, p. 56. Ford got angry with Susan because he thought that Susan was following him and she would ruin the mission. Ford did not trust Susan to take Rayna and Deluca down because Susan was only working in the CIA ’s office and did not being trained to be the field agent. Hence, Susan got angry and insulted Ford for being clumsy following the enemies who suspected Ford and tried to kill him instead of trusting Susan to do the mission. Besides, Ford carried a gun which came up from his pant and Susan insulted Ford by using the word dick to show her anger towards his attitude. If other people suspected it, Ford could not give a logical reason for something that coming up from his pants. The word dick is categorized as psychological motive because it expresses Susan’s anger feeling toward Ford. [13] Ford : I watched the couple that raised me explode in a van. I watched the woman I love get tossed from a plane... and hit by another plane, midair. I dr ove a car off a freeway... on top of train… while I was on fire. I was on fire. Not the car. I was on fire. Susan : Jesus, youre intense. 00:38:36 In this conversation, Ford told Susan about what he had done as a spy see Appendix, p. 55. He elaborated some actions that he did to show how capable he was. This behavior was aimed to compare between the real spy and Susan who was only CIA’s office lady. For that reason, Susan was amazed towards all of Ford’s extreme actions. The word Jesus belongs to psychological motive because it shows Susan’s amazement. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 42 [14] Susan : Oh, God Aldo : Yes Susan : Cant be happening. Damn it, I was having such an empowering moment before this started. 01:43:43 Example 14 shows the conversation between Susan and Aldo which happened when they we re being captured and tied in Rayna’s torture room see Appendix, p. 65. Susan wanted to escape from that place and she asked Aldo to untie her. Both of them were tied and it was ver y difficult to untie Susan’s rope. Therefore, Aldo climbed upon Susan’s body while Susan’s lying on the floor in order to be able to reach the rope. When Aldo tried to untie her, Susan said damn. This swearing belongs to the psychological motive because it was uttered to rele ase Susan’s feeling over the situation. Susan felt embarrassed and surprised that a man was trying to help her by climbing upon her body. In the previous action, she felt so powerful by fighting the bad guys. Then, the moment when Aldo climbed upon her body made her feeling embarrassed and not as cool as before.

2. Social Motive

The second motive of swearing foun d in the main character’s conversation is the social motive. The social motive was related to the field of sociolinguistics itself which convey the relation between language and society. From this point of view, swearing can be used to communicate with other people in different social context. Anderson 1985 points out that swear words are more shocking when they are uttered in public as cited in Karjalainen, 2002. In social motive, swearing is used to assert identity in a group, friendliness and show social intimacy. Besides, it also can show social distance, hatred towards other or PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI