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a. Male to Male Relationship
1 Most men in the sample movies always use swearwords when they talk to
the same gender; especially when they are angry or dislike about something as an expression of grumbling but sometimes they also use swearwords but in less
frequency and by condition of close relationship between the male speaker with their opposite gender addressee.
[nn]
You dmn right it’s limited. No cupholder. No backseat.
[oo]
I just hang out with stupid-ss friends that drive stupid-ss cars that attract a lot of mthr fckng attention
[pp]
How the hll you find some C4?
[qq]
You done fckd up.
Note: the rest of the examples can be found in appendix 3.
Take a look on the examples above. These examples show the expressions of Black English which are used by male speaker to male addressee. All of the
examples use swearwords. Example
[nn]
shows an expression of grumbling because his friend; Mike has limited space in his car since it is a sport car while
the speaker; Marcus does not like the car because it has limited space and very expensive so he grumbles about the car.
Example
[oo]
shows an expression of anger since the actors; Marcus and Mike get troubles because of Mike’s sport car which draws the robber’s attention.
That is the reason why Marcus is angry to Mike and expresses it to the robber.
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48 Example
[pp]
shows the speaker’s amazement Carter towards the addressee Clive because he can find some C4 which is rare and forbidden by the
government. 2
Male speakers often use slang words when they talk to the same gender than the opposite gender although sometimes they do.
[rr]
I’m gonna get busted.
[ss]
The first thing we gotta do is clear out this riffraff.
[tt]
So we gonna take the word ‘flaccid’ and we’re gonna put it in there with my mom’s titties with your erection problems, and we’re gonna close this box
and we’re gonna throw this btch in the ocean.
[uu]
So this look like we having one big orgy here, and ain’t nobody humping.
Note: the rest of the examples can be found in appendix 3.
The examples above show the expressions of Black English which are used by male speakers to male addressee and female addressee. In terms of the usage
frequency, male speakers use expressions which contain slang words more often when they talk to same gender. When the male speakers talk to opposite gender
they use fewer slang words in an expression but sometimes they do if they already know or in close relationship with the opposite gender as the example shown by
example
[uu]
. This example is between male speaker, Marcus talks to his wife, Theresa to
explain about something and the word ‘humping’ is a slang words. Their
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49 relationship as husband and wife shows that they are close so that it is okay to use
such a word like ‘humping’.
b. Male to Female Relationship