20 involved in psychological motive are joy, anger, frustration, joy, surprise, and
sorrow. Those feelings make people swear in order to relief the emotions they get.
b. Social Motives
Not all swearing is triggered by frustration or aggression. Karjalainen 2002 states that someone may swear to assert hisher identity in a group, to
shock, to amuse, to insult, to indicate friendship etc. By doing so, social life can also trigger
someone to swear. Crystal 1995 describes “social swearing is the most common swearing pattern” as cited in Karjalainen 2002, p.26. Those
statements mean that social issues can make someone swear also. People may swear because of their surroundings are doing so.
Therefore, there are several social motives for someone to swear. For the example is when someone joins a gang. If the ganggroup members often swear,
someone who joins the gang will follow the gang‟s old member to swear because
heshe will try to assert hisher identity in the gang.
c. Linguistic Motives
Everyone has different point of view about language as well as swear words. Some people may say that certain swear word is acceptable, but other
people may say that they should be banned. According to Andersson 1985, “we
are free to use any of the tens of thousands of words in our vocabulary, as long as they convey the message we wish to communicate
”. So, from a purely theoretical and linguistic standpoint, people
could say “What a very nice rocking chair” just as well as “What a fucking nice rocking chair” – both would be just as acceptable
as cited in Karjalainen 2002, p.30. Therefore, because people have different
21 point of view related to everything, people will have different ways of speaking in
expressing themselves using different lexicons, grammatical structures, etc. Hence, linguistic motives of swearing are not directed to others. It just appears to
emphasize what someone wants to say.
B. Theoretical Framework
This section synthesizes major theories that help the researcher in conducting the research and answering the research questions. Moreover, in
analyzing the data and answering the research questions, the researcher uses some related theories as the groundwork. The main theories used in this study are
mostly related to taboo, taboo words, and swear words. The researcher aims to investigate two important points of the objectives. The types of swear words and
why the main characters in 21
st
Jump Street movie swear. Specifically, Jay 1992 have categorized types of swear words into 6
types, namely cursing, profanity, blasphemy, taboo or obscenity, insult and slurs, and scatology. By referring to Jay 1992 the researcher aims to find out types of
swear words in 21
st
Jump Street movie. Moreover, using swear words in 21
st
Jump Street movie has three major reasons as they are all explained by Andersson 1985 , there are three reasons for
swearing. The first reason is psychological motives. The second one is social motives. The last reasons for swearing is linguistic motives. Further, the
researcher also wants to find out whether or not those three reasons are found in 21
st
Jump Street movie. .
