51 The following monologue is another example of the use of swear word
which is influenced by social motive SM: Aku ingat Dinda pernah bilang bahwa mungkin aku jatuh cinta
kepada Ruly karena dia itu sosoknya seperti seorang ayah yang selalu melindungi, yang ngemong, yang dewasa.
“Don‟t freud me, bitch,” kataku tertawa waktu Dinda menganalisis begitu.
Monologue Page 186
In this monologue, Keara remembered that one time Dinda was trying to find out the reason why Keara felt in love with Ruly. Dinda said that Keare loves
Ruly just because of Ruly‟s personal character who is really mature. Besides, she regards that Ruly will always protect Keara as a father who always protects her
daughters and sons. At that time, in her monologue, Keara says about her reaction while hearing Dinda‟s argument. It is not clear whether or not Keara agrees.
However, based on the words she has uttered, the word „bitch‟ appeared. Keara
asked Dinda not to say so as if she knows everything about Keara. So that, she calls Dinda‟s name using the word „bitch‟ with no offense. The word “bitch” in
this sentence is employed in order to show their close relation with no anger expression or feeling.
c. Linguistic Motives
The third motive found in the Antologi Rasa novel is linguistic motives. Anderson stated that linguistic motives of swearing appear when swearing
expressions are uttered to give emphasis on what people try to communicate and something being discussed as cited in Karjalainen, 2002, p. 26. In this research,
these motives also become the reasons for the main character to swear because it
52 is only used to emphasize something that she wants to tell about. The
implementation of this motive in swearing expressions can be seen in the following examples.
“Aku menahan diri untuk tidak muntah lagi sampai dia menghilang di
balik pintu menuju dek. Fucking second jackpot. Bubar jalan beneran Operation Conquer Ruly in kalau begini caranya
.”
Monologue Page 196
The monologue above occurs when Keara and Ruly are in the Port of Tanjung Benoa, together with the team of BorderBank and Wyman Parrish, in
order to have a dinner on Bounty Cruise. The dinner itself is arranged by regional office Border of Denpasar as the last dinner in Bali before they go back to Jakarta.
However, Keara gets seasick along the trip to the Port of Tanjung Benoa so that she decided to take a bottle of wine. After drinking some glasses of wine, she gets
her first jackpot. In this context, jackpot means a situation in which someone vomits after drinking alcohol as what Keara did. Ruly knows what has happened
to Keara and he tries to help her. He takes some painkillers for Keara. While Ruly is taking the painkillers for Keara, Keara talks to herself not to have her second
jackpot in front of Ruly. Therefore, Keara employs swearing expression fucking second jackpot to herself in order to give emphasis on what she is talking about
and something which she does not want it to happen in front of Ruly. Ruly : “Mendingan kan, ya, biasanya kalau udah minum obat
begini? ”
Keara : “Normally, iya. Tapi gila ya, musik kampung di dalam itu
masih kedengaran aja dari sini. Makin pusing gue, Rul. I
feel like I‟m inside a crappy episode of The Love Boat.” Dialogue Page 197
53 In this dialogue, Ruly had already taken a medicine for Keara. Ruly asks
Keara whether she feels better or not. Then Keara answered that usually it will be better soon. However, while Keara rests on Ruly‟s shoulder, she hears a tune of
music which she does not like at all. Then she talks to Ruly about it and calls this kind of situation like a very unpleasant episode of The Love Boat movie.
However, she does not just mention it as an unpleasant episode, but a crappy episode. Here, the swearing word „crap‟ is uttered to emphasize what she is
talking about. From the discussion of this chapter, it can be concluded that the auxiliary
type is the most common type that appears in the Antologi Rasa novel. It shows that the main character often uses swear words when she wants to emphasize
something that she is talking about. While the most common motives used by the main character in the novel is psychological motives because while she is
swearing, it is always influenced by her feelings such anger, frustration, shock, and surprise.
