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6. Scatology
The last type of swear words found in 21
st
Jump Street movie was scatology. Jay 1992 describes scatology as a term that refers to human waste
products and processes. It means scatology term has strong relation with feces. The following dialogues are some examples of this type of swearing.
14 Schmidt: This kid was actually talking to a tree this morning.
Capt. Dickson: Cut the bullshit I want to know whos the supplier. Schmidt: We dont know. Thats why theres a question mark on his
face. 00:40:14
Dialogue 14 was part of conversation among Captain Dickson, Schmidt, and Jenko. Captain Dickson listened
to Schmidt‟s explanation about the drug dealer, but Schmidt and Jenko still did not know who the supplier was. Captain
Dickson was angry and swore bullshit to Schmidt and Jenko. Swear word bullshit was categorized as scatology because it had a strong relation with feces since
bullshit ‟s meaning was bull‟s feces.
15
Jenko : What kind of bullshit do they say about a covalent bond in this
school? Delroy : They say its when two atoms share both their electrons. It
helps them to stick together. I could help you out if you want, tutor you for the test. 00:42:02
Dialogue 15 was an example of scatology. In that dialogue, Delroy tested Jenko‟s understanding about chemistry. He asked Jenko what covalent bond was,
and Jenko did not know the answer. Jenko asked Delroy about what covalent bond was. Jenko said that covalent bond was such a bullshit. Swear word bullshit was
considered as scatology because it had strong relation with feces and human excretory since bullshit
‟s meaning was bull‟s feces.
37 16
Schmidt: This is my parents bedroom.
Schmidt‟s friend: What the fuck, bro? Some privacy Shit, shit, shit Schmidt: And that is a really gross three-way. 00:49:34
Dialogue 16 wanted to show his house to Molly. Unfortunately, when he opened his parents
‟ bedroom he got his friends were going threesome promiscuity. His friends were shocked as well, because they never expected that
Schmidt would come to the room. By seeing that, Schmidt said shit, shit, shit. Swear word shit belonged to scatology because it had strong relation with feces,
since shit ‟s meaning was feces.
B. Reasons for Swearing
The second objective in this research is dealing with the reasons for the main characters in the 21
st
Jump Street movie to swear. In analyzing the data, the researcher used theories which discuss reasons for swearing from Andersson
1985. Andersson 1985 categorizes the reasons for swearing into 3 motives. They are Psychological Motives PM, Social Motives SM, and Linguistic
Motives LM.
1. Psychological Motives
People tend to swear when something happened. As what Jay 2009 states in Chapter II that swearing can express
someone‟s emotion or feeling, for instance anger, frustration, joy, and also surprise. That statement meant that
swearing was a reaction to express someone feeling about something. Emotional feelings which are included in psychological motive were joy, anger, frustration,
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