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For the Students The information and knowledge in this research will help the students
understand the concept of swear words. Although it is forbidden to use swear words openly, they might use them as information in learning English as a second
language. 2.
For the Readers This research hopefully can help the readers to have more understanding in
the context of sociolinguistics field about swear words and ethnicity. 3.
For Future Researchers As this research contains information about the types of swear words and
the purposes of uttering swear words, the researchers who want to conduct similar research can use the information in this research as a reference.
F. Definition of Terms
There are several keywords which deal with the research. Here is the definition of these key terms related to this research:
1. Swear Word
Swear word is ―linguistic forms of how people show their emotions, such as
anger, surprise, frustration, etc ‖ Jay, 2000, p. 93. In this study, swear word
means the language that is used to insult or express someone‘s emotions toward
someone else or something. It focuses on the oral swear words. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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Character Character is a person in a novel, play, or film Oxford dictionary. In this
study, what the researcher means about character is the actor or actress as seen in the 12 Years a Slave movie. The characters of the movie are Solomon Northup,
Tibeats, Mr. Epps, Mistress Eps, Patsey, and Bass. 3.
12 Years a Slave 12 Years a Slave is an American movie that was released in 2013 starring
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lupita Nyongo, Sarah Paulson, and Brad Pitt.
4. Ethnicity
Ethnicity is ―a matter of biological and historical fact and is not changed by
the c ulture in which person grows up‖ Crystal, 2003, p. 57. In this study
ethnicity means belonging to a group that shares the same characteristic, such as country of origin, language, religion, ancestry, and culture.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter reviews some related literature to support this research. There are two main points that will be discussed in this chapter. The first point is about
theoretical description in which provides theories and previous studies relevant to the topic. The second point is the theoretical framework which summarizes and
synthesizes all major relevant theories. This section will help the researcher
conduct the study to solve the problems.
A. Theoretical Description
This point will elaborate the basic concept of swear words and some related topics before going further to analyze the problem formulation.
1. Language and Society
