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5. Swear Words Uttered Cathartically
The last is cathartic swearing. As Pinker states, cathartic happens when the speaker uses the taboo words to spontaneously give emotional burst for
responding something that happens to himher Pinker, 2007. Cathartic swearing might occur when it expresses anger, surprise, pain, relief and other feeling and
not delivered to anyone. Here some examples of Mike’s utterances delivered
cathartically: 27 Mike
:
“Everything’s here. Oh, shit Goddamn Eyeball, has
anything left this mortuary in the past two hours? ”
01.53.47-01.54.00 Those utterances takes places when Mike and the team are failed to get the
dead bodies with the drugs and the money in them. This happens after he got the warrant from Captain Howard to do the mission but it is failed at the first step.
There are Oh, shit and Goddamn which expresses his frustration and anger because people of the drugs dealer successfully make him loose the dead bodies.
Those sentences brings the sense of anger through swearing. 28 Mike
:
“You know, I think I got something. Feels like a bag. Shit
It’s his kidney.” 01.43.22-01.43.27
This short sentence is also uttered by Mike when he and Marcus are in charge in a mission to get exhibit of drug storage in a mortuary. The drugs and the
money are hidden in the dead bodies and the coffins. When Mike is looking for the drugs in a dead body, he get surprised because he got the dead kidney. He
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surprise, pain, fear, anger, disappointment and even joy Ljung, 2011, p.22. However, shit still has its meaning as the result of waste processing of living
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter presents two major parts i.e. conclusions and recommendations. In conclusions part, the summary of the research findings are
presented as representative as possible. The recommendations part suggests the further action which can be taken considering the finding of the research.
A. Conclusions
Based on the analysis, the following findings can be drawn to answer the research questions. The research question number one is: what are the kinds of
swear words uttered by Mike Lawrey in Bad Boys II movie by Michael Bay? On the analysis conducted, the kinds of swearwords found in Bad Boys II movie are
various. The variation constrains from the themes of religious and secular taboos. Profanity or blasphemy, as the only theme religious taboo, occurs in two words
i.e. hell and damn. In term of secular taboo, the various kinds of taboo words are cursing, taboo or obscenity, vulgarity, epithets, and insults or slurs.
Moreover, the research question number two is: how does Mike Lawrey express the swear words in Bad Boys II movie? The taboo words and swear words
have different functions i.e. such as interjection surprise, pain, fear, anger, disappointment, even joy, emphasizers after interrogative WH-word, and
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