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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 49 suggestive laughter and the word cock is a half-way dirty word, 50 dirty -- dirty half the time, dependin g on what you mean by it.” The word cock is taboo since it has connotation toward male sexual organ. Yet, the word cock there is still not uttered with any emotive function. The taboo words in this utterance then do not become swear words and are uttered descriptively since they do not carry any emotive function nor reflect the feeling of the speaker. This utterance, taken as a whole, is performative and has an illocutionary force. It can be observed by the response of the audiences. The audiences laugh hearing Carlin in several times says the word cock. The kind of the illocution of the utterance is representative since in this utterance Carlin tried to inform or suggest that the word cocksucker is not completely dirty. This utterance also has perlocutionary force since it succeeds to make the audiences laugh. Should it be checked, this utterance does not meet the rule B.1, B.2, T.1, and T.2. If this utterance is said to be offensive, then the act will be misfired since the audiences do not respond the utterance of the taboo word with a sign of anger or disgust. 6 “the cock crowed three times, heh, the cock -- three times.” The discussion about the word cock is continued to this part. The tabooness of this word might be derived from the symbols of maleness or virility in which cock rooster is often used as the symbol Hughes, 2006, p. 86. In this