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2. Swear Words Uttered Idiomatically
The next part is idiomatic swearing. It clearly suggests that there is idiom in the use of taboo words of swear words. There are some examples of swear
words uttered idiomatically. The examples present the functions as interjection and emphasizer as taking from Ljung’s theory.
21 Marcus :
“You know, unlike you, my daddy didn’t leave me no trust fund. I got real-world shit to deal with,
Mike. ”
Mike :
“I’m not in it for the thrills, same old shit, different day. All right, yes, damn. I shot you,
all right? But you’d be seeing nothing at all if I
hadn’t made my move. So I don’t know why you acting so angry.
” 00.11.22-00.11.45
That conversation takes place when Mike is forced to confess that he hits Marcus accidentally. Marcus keeps bubbling to express his anger at Mike. For
many times, Mike has explained that it could happen because he shoots many times and does not know what thing his bullet passed before hitting the target,
including Marcus’s butt. Finally, Mike gets frustrated because he keeps hearing Marcus’s nagging. “Same old shit” refers to the same “shit” thing that they
actually had in the past. They had experienced the same moments but in different time. It shows the frustration that Mike feels because Marcus keeps blaming him.
In this case, the swear words uttered has the function as emphasizer. Mike could use another word which really refers to its literal meaning. However, he uses it to
emphasize the noun to express his feeling since he says it in the situation where Marcus are bubbling at him.
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:
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