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future combat loader. This auxiliary swearing was also considered as Jack’s habit in mentioning something great.
The second example of auxiliary swearing could be seen below: Code: Let’s Build a Robot Army 5
Jack Gladstone, gimme a full memory reboot I want that
thing SANE and I want it BADASS
Wow, that was tough. Well, at least it looked tough. Whatever, good work. Now, let’s see what this
puppy can pump out. Gladstone, make me some friggin’ robots
Gladstone Ready for construction.
In this scene, Jack had just finished capturing a giant chaotic robot which was rebelling against him. In order to turn the robot to side with him again, Jack
asked Gladstone to wipe its memory by rebooting it using computer. In this
situation, Jack ordered Gladstone to make the robot sane and “Badass”. This
swearing expression indicated that it was an auxiliary swearing where the word
“Badass” was used by Jack to emphasize or spice up the meaning Jack wanted to
convey. He could have said it with other vocabulary such as “great” or
“awesome”, but Jack preferred to use “Badass”. It showed that this swearing was
the form of Jack’s habit in mentioning something awesome. In addition, after Jack and Gladstone had tamed the giant chaotic robot, he wanted that robot to produce
smaller robot armies. In referring the robot, Jack used the term “fuckin’” before
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So, it was also considered that it was just Jack’s habit in using swearing expression.
4.1.2 Motives of Swearing
Throughout the game, Jack had several reasons that motivate him to make swearing expressions. I found that the factors which motivated Jack to do
swearing emerged from psychological, social, and linguistic aspect. The psychological motive was related to something which affected his psychological
condition so that he was motivated to do swearing. The social motive was related with the Jack’s social condition. He was motivated to do swearing because he
wanted to have certain goal in his social life. The other motive was about linguistic reason where Jack was motivated to do swearing because he wanted to
do that. It means that swearing was his style to express his emotions.
4.1.2.1 Psychological Motives
I found that Jack would likely to swear when something went wrong. When Jack planned something and the thing did not go as planned, he would
likely to express his disappointment, frustration or anger with swearing utterance. He would also do swearing when he was confronted by some unexpected events
or when he was shocked by something. In that condition, Jack was motivated to do swearing because he need to immediately vent his emotion and he wanted to
immediately restore his emotion using verbal action which was swearing. However, it was also possible for Jack to do swearing when Jack was having a
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feeling, he would likely to do swearing. This motive was about something that affected his psychological condition that triggered him to do swearing.
In the first example, Jack was motivated to express his feeling by swearing when something made him frustrated or angry:
Code: Lost Legion Invasion 18 Jack
Woo We made it Alright, we just gotta get into a moonshot container.
Soldier The greed of Hyperion shall not --
Jack -- After we kill THIS asshole
In the conversation above, Jack was motivated to express his feeling using swearing utterance because he was frustrated and angry toward the soldier. At
first, Jack was trying to go to the moonshot container. He wanted to do this because he and the Vault Hunter wanted to escape from the chaotic space station.
When he wanted to head toward the moonshot container, suddenly the soldier appeared and he wanted to kill Jack and the Vault Hunter. Driven by the
frustration, Jack was motivated to use swear word in his utterance. In this case, he was frustrated because he did not want to be disturbed by the soldier. Thus, Jack
used the name calling “asshole” to mention the soldier.
In the second example, Jack was motivated to do swearing because something made him happy:
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Code: A New Direction 14 Jack
Where was I -- oh, right, my awesome master plan. Taking the fight to Helios is gonna need an army, so
-- we make one Head down to Spings’, I’ll explain on the way, I’m gonna stay here, gonna go through
the Meriff’s stuff. We’re making a freakin’ robot army, baby Hell yeah Shopping list’s simple:
some combat chassis and top-of -the-line military AI to run them. Word is, Springs is the lady for the
AI. Hey Mox, you know where I can build me some kick ass robot bodies?
Moxxi Since that
giant laser’s gonna kill, well, everyone, I know who might be willing to scout around for
hardware, Lemme talk to them and get back to you.
Jack Sounds good -- let’s hustle, people We’ve got a
moon to save
In the conversation above, he was making a plan to take back his space station, Helios. He thought that if he wanted to do that, he would need an army.
Thus, Jack was then planning to create robot army. In this case, he was very
excited so that he was motivated to do swearing “Hell yeah” in order to vent his
happy feeling. He was psychologically affected by the excitement, and he needed to vent that emotion by swearing.
4.1.2.2 Social Motives
The other reason which motivated Jack to do swearing was social condition. Jack was swearing because he was trying to indicate friendship within
his social group. The aim of this swearing expression was not intended to abuse or wound the addressee, but as the opposite, it would likely strengthen the bond
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