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-
47 letter-word
“damn” to express his surprised and amazed feeling after seeing what happened to her friend’s butt. “Damn” is meant to be swearing. In this context, the
speaker is surprised of anything happened. In this case, Mike is amazed that the wound is quite serious.
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Mike: “Oh, shit Dan Marino. What’s up? Back up, Dan. Hey,
you’re the truth.” 01.23.01-01.23.02
This short sentence is uttered by Mike who gets surprised because he accidentally meets Dan Marino, a famous football player. Dan Marino is the
owner of the car which he borrowed by force. “Shit” in this sentence plays a role
as a swear word which still has its meaning as living creature’s excrement to show
Mike’s surprised feeling, not to abuse the target. Mike is showing his amazement of Dan Marino whom he meets directly.
26 Mike
: “You know, I think I got something. Feels like a
bag. Shit
It’s his kidney.” 01.43.22-01.43.27
This short sentence is also uttered by Mike when he and Marcus are in charge in a mission to get exhibit of drug storage in a mortuary. The drugs and the
money are hidden in the dead bodies and the coffins. When Mike is looking for the drugs in a dead body, he gets surprised for he gets the dead kidney. He swore
“Shit” to express his feeling. However, “Shit” still has its meaning as the result of waste processing of living creature.
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5. Swear Words Uttered Cathartically
The last is cathartic swearing. As Pinker states, cathartic happens when the speaker uses the taboo words to spontaneously give emotional burst for
responding something that happens to himher Pinker, 2007. Cathartic swearing might occur when it expresses anger, surprise, pain, relief and other feeling and
not delivered to anyone. Here some examples of Mike’s utterances delivered
cathartically: 27 Mike
:
“Everything’s here. Oh, shit Goddamn Eyeball, has
anything left this mortuary in the past two hours? ”
01.53.47-01.54.00 Those utterances takes places when Mike and the team are failed to get the
dead bodies with the drugs and the money in them. This happens after he got the warrant from Captain Howard to do the mission but it is failed at the first step.
There are Oh, shit and Goddamn which expresses his frustration and anger because people of the drugs dealer successfully make him loose the dead bodies.
Those sentences brings the sense of anger through swearing. 28 Mike
:
“You know, I think I got something. Feels like a bag. Shit
It’s his kidney.” 01.43.22-01.43.27
This short sentence is also uttered by Mike when he and Marcus are in charge in a mission to get exhibit of drug storage in a mortuary. The drugs and the
money are hidden in the dead bodies and the coffins. When Mike is looking for the drugs in a dead body, he get surprised because he got the dead kidney. He
swears Shit to express his feeling or to interject his expression on what happened PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
