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4.2.2 Motives of Swearing
The second objective in this research is dealing with the motive for Jack to use swearing in expressing his emotion. Based on the findings, there are three
kinds of motives found in Jack’s utterances. Those are psychological, social, and linguistic motives. However, among those motives, psychological motives take
the greatest role in influencing Jack to do swearing. There are 87 swearing expressions which were motivated by psychological motive. The second one was
linguistic motive. There were 41 swearing expressions which were influenced by linguistic motive. The least motive which did not affect Jack much was social
motive. There were only 5 swearing expression which was motivated by social motive. In this discussion, the theory of motive of swearing by Andersson 1985,
p. 110-122 would be used to support the explanation.
4.2.2.1 Psychological Motive
Psychological motives of swearing emphasize that swearing is used to release stress and express someone’s feeling or emotion. It covers the urge of
emotive feelings such as anger, shock, surprise, frustration, happiness, and joy. It also usually happens in reflex in order to restore emotional stability. Based on the
findings, there are two conditions which would influence Jack psychologically to do swearing. The first condition, Jack was motivated or triggered to express his
feeling by swearing when something made him frustrated or angry. In the second condition, Jack was motivated to do swearing when he was triggered by
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motive was when something made Jack angry. The example of the swearing expression could be seen below.
Code: Paint Job 2 Jack
Alright, who the hell’s been defacing my station? Show yourself
Nakayama It’s me, sir Professor Nakayama. I’m the gene--
Jack -- Yeahyeah, Don’t care. You’re pissing me off
with your weird hijinx, Nakytama. Cut it out I’ll have you forcefed into a weapon frinder. Friggin’
jackass.
This conversation happened between Jack and his subordinate, Professor Nakayama. In this scene, Nakayama was trying to take Jack’s attention so that his
admiration to Jack could be noticed. He was trying to take Jack’s attention by decorating the front door of Jack’s office. He put some flowers there, but the
defense system of the office did not allow it. In result, Jack was getting a report from his computer that something or someone was defacing his station. This
condition was frustrating for Jack and this condition triggered Jack to do swearing
by uttering “who the hell”. Furthermore, after he found out the person who was
defacing his station, he was getting more frustrated. In result, he was triggered to
abuse Professor Nakayama by claiming that he was “pissing” Jack off, and by name-calling him “friggin’ jackass”. It was in accordance with Andersson’s
1985, p. 110 theory about psychological motive. He stated that someone would like to do swearing because that person was triggered by unpleasant thing that is
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