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“shit, man” to Schmidt to indicate the closeness between them. Swear word shit considered as social motive because Eric said shit to Schmidt to indicate the
intimacy or closeness between them. 20
Schmidt: If I was just born 10 years later, I would have been the coolest person ever.
Jenko: I know. Its bullshit. You know what? I totally know the cause. Glee. Fuck you, Glee. 00:42:50
Dialogue 20 was another example of social motives. In that dialogue, Schmidt imagined if he was born 10 years later, he would be the coolest person in
the senior high school. Jenko mocked Schmidt that Schmidt was a glee. He said “fuck you, glee” because he wanted to mock Schmidt. Swear word fuck here
belonged to social motive because Jenko used the swear word fuck to mock Schmidt.
21
Schmidt : There are good guys out there who arent assholes like me. Molly : Thanks for saving my life, asshole. 01:41:28
Dialogue 21 was another example of social motives. In that dialogue, Schmidt said to Molly that he was not a good guy because he had lied to Molly.
Schmidt said that he was an asshole, then Molly thanked to Schmidt because he had saved her life, and called Schmidt asshole. The swear word asshole
considered as social motive because both Schmidt and Molly said asshole to indicate their intimacy.
3. Linguistic Motives
Linguistic motives of swearing appear when swearing expressions are uttered to give emphasizes on what people tried to communicate Andersson,
1985. In this research, these motives of swearing were the main reasons for the
41 main character to swear. The following dialogues are some examples of linguistic
motives. 22
Capt.Dickson: You hear that? Thats you. Dont do it, man Jenko: Why?
Capt.Dickson: Keep that dirty dick in your pants. Jenko: Dirty?
Capt.Dickson: Dont fuck no students. Dont fuck no teachers. 00:13:49
Dialogue 22 was an example of linguistic motive. In that dialogue, Captain Dickson asked Jenko not to fuck anyone, but Jenko wanted to know the reason.
Captain Dickson answered that Jenko had to keep his dirty dick in his pants. The swear word dirty dick considered as linguistic motive, because the word dirty gave
emphasis on the swear word dick, so it was belonged to linguistic motives. 23
Schmidt : Now we have the wrong identities, you dumb-ass. Im in drama. I suck at drama. Its girly and embarrassing
Jenko : Oh, my God. Relax, dude. Who cares? I can fake my way through band practice and app chemistry for a few weeks
Schmidt : AP Chemistry. AP Chemistry. And, no, you cant, because you dont even know what its actually fucking called
Jenko : Its going to be fine. You go to my classes, and Im going to go to yours. 00:25:50
Dialogue 23 was another example of linguistic motives. In that dialogue, Schmidt argued with Jenko about their wrong identities. Schmidt was worried if
Jenko did not know anything about AP Chemistry, but Jenko did not think that it was something hard. Schmidt said that Jenko would not know about AP
Chemistry and why it was called AP Chemistry by saying “what it‟s actually
fucking called ”. The swear word fucking called belonged to linguistic motives
because the swear word fucking gave emphasis on called word.
