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4. Movie
Movie is a medium of communication rich with social implications, created within different social, historical and cultural contexts as an art of audio-
visual story telling Career View, 2011. In this research, the researcher use Bad Boys
II movie
transcript from
https:subscene.comsubtitlesbad-boys- iienglish727437. It is American action-comedy movie produced by Don
Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Michael Bay in his directorial debu. Since it is action-comedy movie, it has high-violence acts and swearing in
the conversation. This movie transcript becomes the main data source to be analyzed.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents a review of theories and concepts supporting this
research in order to achieve the aims of the research objectives. This section provides two major parts: the theoretical description and framework. The
theoretical description presents theories relevant to this research. Meanwhile, the theoretical framework presents how the main theories are used to answer the
research questions.
A. Theoretical Description
There are two research questions which need to be answered by acceptable and scientific results.
In order to reach this aim, the researcher uses some theories relevant to this research. The first principal
theory explains the concept of swearing as a part of language. Moreover, it elaborates the definitions of swearing
by some experts and the kinds of swear words used by society. The second theory explains the pragmatics field as it is closely related to the context of words
uttered. The term of pragmatic used here is more about the function behind the ideas and the feelings expressed by Mike Lawrey as the main character in Bad
Boys II movie. This part explains the definitions, descriptions, and elaborations as the theoretical foundation of the research.
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