Research Question, Purpose and Limitation Research Benefit

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B. Research Question, Purpose and Limitation

The research problem is formulated as how McEnery‘s classification of bad language words can be applied in categorizing the occurrences of swearing in the Indonesian language especially in the The Raid Redemption and The Raid 2: Berandal. This research would use the categorization of swearing based on its form suggested by McEnery in 2006. The reason why The Raid Redemption and The Raid 2: Berandal was chosen is because they received good comments from many film enthusiasts around the globe. This research is conducted to find out how McEnery‘s classification of bad language words can be applied in categorizing the occurrences of swearing in the Indonesian language especially in the The Raid Redemption and The Raid 2: Berandal. However, there is one scene in the second movie in which swearing in English is exposed and it was against the aim of this paper. For that reason this research would only analyzing swearing in Indonesian language only. This statement will also act as the problem limitation so that any occurrence of swear words other than in Indonesian language will not be considered as the data as it will interfere the process of making the conclusion. McEnery in his book stated that ―swearing is one example of bad language‖ 2006, p.2. Based on this statement, the researcher would also like to limit t hat swearing is a small part of ―bad language‖ McEnery, 2006, p.2. Hereby, the researcher would use ―bad language‖ to refer to swearing that is usually mentioned by most people. 7

C. Research Benefit

This research might sound quite minor but it still contributes input towards the knowledge. This paper will exhibit the exploration of bad language activity in a language other than English, which is Indonesian, whereas not so many references are available to observe such activity. This paper would fill in the gap among studies contributed by many people mentioned in the research background section especially related to the applications of experts‘s classifications of swear word or bad language word beyond the limit of their language of origin. Also as a future educator, the researcher could draw benefit from this study that the researcher was inspired to be very cautious in speaking for the researcher could accidentally utter a bad language word and offend people.

D. Review of Related Theory