An analysis of swearing words in the film entitled “dangerous minds” (a socio-pragmatics approach)

Oleh :
Amalia Windardeni - C0303009 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

ABSTRACT This research aims at finding types of swearing word employed by the characters in the film “Dangerous Minds”, and at knowing the way and reason of the characters in employing it. This research is a descriptive qualitative research that refers to the method which formulates the conclusion by collecting, classifying, and interpreting the data of the research. The source of the data is the film entitled “Dangerous Minds” with its script of film found in the internet. All of the utterances containing swearing word employed by the characters in the film entitled “Dangerous Minds” are used as the data of the research. This research applies total sampling technique. There are 53 data of swearing words found in 33 dialogues. Derived from the analysis, the research concludes that: 1) there are six types of swearing words employed by the characters in the film entitled “Dangerous Minds” namely Religion, Anatomy, Excretory, Stupidity, Animal, and General. 2) The analysis of the data shows that the most swearing word employed by the characters exists in equal status of participants’ scale. It is found that the most swearing word expressed in high tone. 3) There are several reasons of the characters in the film employ swearing words. The reasons are: to express anger, to express annoyance, to mock, to create attention, to deny, to show pleasure, to refer to something bad, to express pleasure, to insult, to express dislike, and to show intimacy. It is expected that this research will give benefit for other researchers who are interested in studying Socio-Pragmatics especially dealing with swearing words. They can analyze it from different domain of language use, such as friendship domain, employment domain and the other.