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he was enjoy in insulting someone or something and he preferred in conveying his intentions by insulting others. It could also be said that insulting others was Jack’s
habit in conversations.
5.1.2 Motives of Swearing
In the game “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel”, Jack as the main character has three kinds of motive behind his swearing utterances in the conversation
which is occurred throughout the game. Those are psychological motive, social motive, and linguistic motive. Specifically, the motive that mostly triggers Jack to
swear is psychological motive. It is then concluded that there were a lot of situations which affected Jack’s psychological condition. Those situations
motivated Jack to express his emotion by uttering swearing words. Jack was easily motivated to swear by frustrating condition and swearing itself helped Jack
relieving the emotional pressure he had. In other words, swearing helped Jack to achieve good feeling.
5.2 Recommendations
After conducting this study, I would like to make some recommendations. The recommendations are addressed to English Language Education Study
Program lecturers, English Language Education Study Program students, and future researchers.
Lecturers are expected to have broad knowledge about the subject they are going to teach. In this case, English Language Education Study Program lecturers
should have deeper understanding about linguistic aspect, specifically in swearing PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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expressions. Generally, swearing expressions are not taught in the formal institution. Thus, by understanding the concept of swearing, lecturers could teach
the student about the concepts of swearing which include the origin, the types, and the motives of swearing expression.
This research could motivate English Language Education Study Program students to learn about the concept of swearing. I suggest that the students learn
about swearing in order for them to have broader knowledge about this subject so that they could see swearing in a different perspective. The students should also
learn about how to use certain swear words in certain situations so that they could avoid unnecessary misunderstanding situation.
This research is only about the types and motives of swearing expressions in a certain video game. I suggest that the future researchers conduct a wider or
deeper research about swearing using different subject of research and with the different objective such as the meaning of swear words or the offensiveness of
swearing utterances. Hopefully, all of the research about swearing which have been done could complete each other.
