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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
As mentioned previously, this research discusses the purposes and effects of the Indonesian translation in translating the spoken swearing words by the
characters. To find the purposes of using swearing words, there is one element that really matter, the expressions of the characters. The expression is the key to see
what the purposes are because from that expression or the visual, the purpose can be seen from the context of using swearing words. After knowing the purposes, the
next step is to see the effects whether it has the same effect to the audience and the target text still in the same category with the source language when they see the
translation in subtitle format.
A. The purposes of expressing swearing word in The Wolf of Wall Street.
This part discusses the reason why the characters express swearing words. The swearing words based on the purpose stated in article wirrten by Dr. Grohol
stated that using swearing words is the same like using a horn in a car because we horn it for several purpose such as anger, frustration, surprising, and others.
Grohol, 2009. From that statement, it can be concluded that the characters in The Wolf of Wall Street have several purpose of using swearing word. The purposes are
to express emotion such as anger, envy, happiness, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, eagerness, and excitement, to insult, to question, and to instruct. These categories
are considered based on the context of the situation there. To make the categories,
the important thing to be considered is to know the situation and the context of the conversation. An example, from category surprise, the sentence get the fuck out of
here has a purpose as a surprise expressions because from the context of the story, Donnie the one who says it, is surprises with what he sees.
1. Surprise Surprise expression is one of the minor expressions that are used by the
characters in The Wolf of Wall Street. Surprise is a feeling caused by something happening suddenly or unexpectedly Wehmeier, 2005:1310. Swearing word that
exists in the surprise expressions is used when the characters are expressing a feeling of something that is unexpected. The surprising expression that is analyzed
in The Wolf of Wall Street is 2 data from the total 6 data on surprising expressions. The expressions are:
No. Data Source Language
3-SL-SE Get the fuck out of here.
5-SL-SE No shit, that’s interesting.
10-SL-SE How the fuck else would you do
this?
There are two expressions for this category. The first swearing word appears in minute 22:49. It appears when Donnie Azoff, a husband that works in children’s
furniture meets Jordan Belfort for the first time in a restaurant. He asks whether the yellow luxury Jaguar is parked outside the restaurant belongs to Jordan and Jordan
says yes. Donnie lives in the same building with Jordan and he is really amazed with Jordan’s classy car so he asks what Jordan does for his living. Jordan answers
that he is a stockbroker then Donnie asks again how much money he makes. Jordan answers around 70.000 per month. Surprisingly, Donnie answers, “Get the fuck
out of here”. He surprises upon hearing that Jordan can make a lot of money in one month rather than him. Get the fuck out of here means that someone need to get out
from that place. The purpose of using swearing word is to express that he is shocked about the income that Jordan has.
The second swearing word appears in 44:57. There is a conversation between Jordan, Donnie, Feinberg and Koskoff. Donnie, Feinberg and Koskoff work with
Jordan as the boss of the company. They are talking about a game that are throwing dwarves two men into some target thing like in a pin game and the hired to dwarves
man to become the ball. They want to play with the two dwarf men. They think about what else they can do with them. Feinberg talks about one dwarf man that
once become some kind of bowling ball and they throw him like a bowling ball that he just slides in the floor then suddenly in a little bit shock, Jordan says, “No shit,
that’s interesting”. The utterance means that the person is surprise and do not believe in what he heard. Jordan is using swearing word to show that he is shocked
and interested. The third swearing word appears in minute 9:06 at the beginning of the film.
Jordan is a new guy in the office, as a senior Mark asks Jordan to have lunch together. While they are ordering, Mark orders vodka, lots of vodkas while Jordan
just order a glass of mineral water. Jordan questions about how Mark can still function while he drunk and using cocaine. So Mark asks Jordan, “How the fuck
else you do this? Cocaine and hookers, my friend.” The utterance have the same meaning with how do you do that? Someone is asking about how he do it. Mark
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