Research Problems Problem Limitation Research Objectives
10 by the society Hughes, 2006. Taboo words include oath, blasphemy or profanity
hell, damn, bloody Mary, obscenity or vulgarity fuck, shit, piss, pussy, cock, ethnic racial slurs yankee, kaffir, gringo, nigger, and so on.
3. Swear words
Swear words are taboo words which are uttered by involving emotive function and do not refer to its literal meaning Ljung, 2011. The eleventh edition of
Oxford English Dictionary mentions that the emotion carried on in swearing is
merely anger. Whereas, in the context of this research, swear words can also express any other emotions like happiness Scherer Sagarin, 2006.
4. Reference
Reference is the actual object or real world entity picked out by a linguistic expression Frawley, 1992. Reference is also understood as a relation that holds
between speakers and what they are talking about in particular occasions Lyons, 1995, p. 294.
5. Sense
Sense means the idea or other information derived from how the expression is expressed as the product of logic Lyons, 1995. Frawley 1992 also
conceptualizes that sense is all the information which makes a sentence meaningful to someone who may or may not know the referential facts of a word.
From the definitions above it can be synthesized that this research analyzes the meaning of the words, phrases, or sentences as a unit of utterance which contain
words which have taboo reference, whether they are in the form of taboo words or
11 swear words. This research will take an eye on every qualified word which is uttered
by Gorge Carlin in his monologue entitled Seven Wo rds You Can’t Say on Television.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter reviews some related studies which support the present research. There are two major points that are discussed in this section. The first
point is the theoretical description which reviews some theories and also other related studies relevant to the topic. The second point is the theoretical framework
which provides the synthesized major theories which help the researcher solve the research questions.