45 In the next sentence, Mike utter
“All right, yes, damn. I shot you, all right?
” He interjects his feeling by delivering the statement which means that he is so tired hearing Marcus’s anger and blame.
22 Mike :
“Hey, get off. Listen Listen Listen We need this
warrant. Do not fuck this up. Pull yourself
together. ”
01.47.05-01.47.07 Dialogue 22 is about the scene when Marcus accidentally drinks the X
drugs and gets drunk. Mike gets angry because they have an important thing to do in Captain Howard’s house. They want to get a warrant to arrest the owner of
the drug dealer. However, Marcus acts like a drunken man and it would fail their mission.
“Do not fuck this up” shows Mike’s anger at Marcus to make him back to his awareness. The use of fuck as swear word here emphasizes the anger which
Mike expressess. This means that Marcus is not allowed to break their plan to get the warrant. Mike would rather
use “destroy” than “fuck up”. However, to emphasize his warning to Marcus, he uses the swear words as an emphasizer. It is
in line w ith Ljung’s theory that emphasizer may also take the form of infixation in
a phrase like “fuck this up” as being analyzed in this point.
3. Swear words Uttered Abusively
The next is swear words uttered abusively. Rather than only expressing anger on the part of the speaker, it serves the function of denoting undesirable
qualities of the target, whether these are real or imagined by the speaker Jay, 1992. There is an example of swear word which has abusive sense:
46 23 Mike
:
“Blue power, motherfuckers. Miami PD.”
Marcus :
“Aw, damn. It’s the Negroes.” Mike
: “Casper, drop the bag. Alpha leader, bring them
in. ”
00.05.41-00.05.58
The dialogue above is about Mike and Marcus who have just showed their disguises among the culprits. Mike uses motherfucker which is related to sexual
terms in order to abuse them. He uses swear words to denote that they could not continue their activity because police officers have already come. It is imagined
that they are doing something as nasty as what should be called “motherfucker’s
activity ”. Dwelling upon Ljung’s theory, it is considered interjection which
presents anger, in this case, delivered by Mike for the culprits.
4. Swear Words Uttered Emphatically
The fourth category is swear words uttered emphatically. According to Jay 1992 as cited in Chapter II, emphatic expression is given to unexpected
achievement or loss. Emphatic expression also presents the use of taboo words as expletive interjection or slot-filler as Ljung 2011 notes before. Some examples
of swear word considered as emphatic expression are the following:
24 Mike
: “Me? I shot you?”
Marcus :
“Yeah.” Mike
: “I mean I was shooting. Yeah. I did a lot of
shooting. But I ain’t saying I shot you in the ass. I
ain’t saying I didn’t shoot you. But, damn Somebody shot you in the ass.
” 00.10.12-00.10.25
The conversation above takes place when Mike sees the wound he makes on Marcus’s butt. He accidentally shoots it during the gun war. He uses the four-
