23 analysis to analyze swear words in 21
st
Jump Street movie. Since the researcher found the swear words in the transcript of 21
st
Jump Street movie, discourse analysis was considered as the most appropriate technique for this research.
B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted this research from September 2015 until January 2016. Firstly, the researcher looked for the data source on August 2015. As a
result, the researcher then chose 21
st
Jump Street transcript as the main source for this study, the transcript was not written by the researcher since he got it from the
internet. Secondly, the researcher obtained some books from the library as the resources of the theories to answer the research questions. Thirdly, the researcher
gathered the data from the transcript on September 2015. Fourthly, the data analysis was conducted from August until December 2015. Since this study did
not deal with human interaction and field study, the specific were not necessary to mention.
C. Data Source
The data source of this research was a transcript of 21
st
Jump Street movie. The researcher downloaded the transcript from www.subscene.com. Many swear
words appeared in the transcript. That was the reason why the researcher was about to analyze the use of swear words in this movie. The researcher watched
and checked the transcript to analyze whether the transcript was good or bad. After the researcher matched the transcript and the movie, the researcher added
the name of the character based on hisher part since the transcript had not put the character‟s name.
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D. Instrument and Data Gathering Technique
In conducting this discourse analysis research, there was only one major instrument involved. It was 21
st
Jump Street movie‟s transcript as the subject
document. The researcher employed the transcript to collect the data of the swear words utterances. The transcript, consisted of two hundred and eight pages, and
taken from www.subscene.com. In gathering the data, the researcher used coding categories as the
technique. Frankel and Wallen 2006 state that apply coding categories is a technique that is used in discourse analysis method. Moreover, Frankel and
Wallen 2006 also mention that the researcher could decide the coding categories to get the data. In this study, the researcher made coding categories based on the
previous research, knowledge and theories that related to the topic of this study. The following table presented two objectives which became the focus of the study,
which were, the types of taboo words and the functions of taboo words. The format of the coding table showed how the researcher answered the first and
second research questions of this study.
Table 3.1. Format of the Coding Table of the Types of Swearing and Reasons for Swearing in the 21
st
Jump Street Movie
No Code Data
Types Reasons
Explanation
Dialogue Swearing
C P B
O I
S S
P M
S M
L M
1.
O-PM 00:05:51
Jenko: No fucking way. Schmidt:
One Percenters? These guys
are, like, big-time drug dealers.
No fucking way
√ √
Jenko is shocked because he see one
percenters gang, a drug dealer gang.
2.
P-PM 00:16:43
Capt. Dickson: Infiltrate
the dealers, find the supplier
Jenko: But if we find
the supplier
first,we God damn
√ √
Capt. Dickson angry because Jenko tries
to argue his opinion.
