At the end of the story, Elizabeth gives advice to one of her students, Garret who has a crush with his classmate, Chase. Elizabeth tells Garret that he should let
his crush go since Chase doesnt like him. Moreover, Chase is too superficial to him. Then, it makes Elizabeth reflect for a moment on how she has been superficial with
her love interests for Scott. When Amy moves out from her school, Scott puts his interest on Elizabeth. However, she turns him down because she realizes that it is
better to date Russell Gettis who has a sincere feeling for her. When the new school year starts, Elizabeth turns to be a better person and she also has a new position in
the school as the new guidance counselor. Bad Teacher managed as a successful movie in 2011. The movie reached
number 1 box office in Germany on country’s Cinema Charts. Moreover, the movie also won several awards from 2011 Teen Choice Award such as Best Choice Movie
Comedy, Best Choice Actor for Justin Timberlake and Best Choice Actress for Cameron Diaz.
B. Previous Research
There are several previous researches with taboo words as the topic of investigation. The researcher takes two of them as references in undertaking this
research. 1. Types and Functions of Taboo Words in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story
Stefany Wahyudi, 2008 In this undergraduate thesis, Stefany focused on taboo words which were
produced by the main character in a novel entitled A Boy’s Own Story. The
researcher chose this novel as the object of study because of its unique topic which told about gay community that exists in this world. The objectives of the research
were to investigate the types and functions of taboo words in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story.
The results of the research show that in term of types of taboo words, sex term occurred the most among other types. Then, bodily function term took the second
position followed by excretion term, the left hand term, mother in law term, religious matter term and death term. For the function of taboo words, the researcher
found that taboo words in the novel are used as terms of endearment. 2. The Use of Taboo Words between Main Characters Seen in Conviction Movie
Yasa Febrianuswantoro and Emalia Iragiliati, 2012 This journal talked about types and functions of taboo words presented by the
main characters in Conviction movie. The objectives of the research were to investigate the types of taboo words using the theory from Ekstrom and theory of
the function of taboo words using the combination of Face Threatening Act FTA from Brown and Levinson and theory of positive impoliteness superstrategy from
Culpeper. For the type of taboo words, obscenity occurred the most among other types
followed by profanity, insult, cursing and epithet. For the functions of taboo words, the researcher found that not all taboo words indicated positive impoliteness
superstrategy or to attack the hearer’s positive face. Taboo words can also function to maintain the want of the hearers.
Both of the previous studies focus on taboo words. It is interesting to investigate the same topic by using a different theory and object. By using a
different object, the research can show different results as it takes a different context. Unlike the previous studies, this research provides more detail explanation by
giving examples on the types of taboo words and the functions of taboo words from the dialogs between the characters in the movie.
C. Conceptual Framework
