SWEAR WORDS IN THE MOVIE MIDNIGHT RUN

Swear words are often heard and spoken spontaneously. They are usually intended to express when angry, depressed, joking, hateful, frustrated, disappointed, surprised, or excited. This graduating paper examines swear words found in the American movie Midnight Run. The data used in this research were...

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Main Authors: , R.A. KHOIRI LULU NAJMI, , Drs. Tofan Dwi Hardjanto, MA
Format: Thesis
Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014
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description Swear words are often heard and spoken spontaneously. They are usually intended to express when angry, depressed, joking, hateful, frustrated, disappointed, surprised, or excited. This graduating paper examines swear words found in the American movie Midnight Run. The data used in this research were dialogues containing swear words. The results show that 193 swear words were found in the movie. 10 swear words (5.2%) belong to anatomical terms, 19 (9.9%) to animal terms, 89 (46.2%) to copulative terms, 29 (15.1%) to excretory terms, 9 (4.5%) to imbecilic terms, 16 (8.3%) to religious terms, and 21 (10.8%) to spirits or death terms. This shows that copulative terms are the most commonly used for swearing. This research also found 7 functions used in this movie. The most commonly used function is for expressing anger 106 (55%), expressing amazement 36 (18.7%), expressing annoyance 20 (10.3%), expressing intimacy 14 (7.2%), expressing insult 13 (6.7%), expressing disappointment 3 (1.6%), and expressing regret 1 (0.5%).
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:1267332016-03-04T08:07:46Z https://repository.ugm.ac.id/126733/ SWEAR WORDS IN THE MOVIE MIDNIGHT RUN , R.A. KHOIRI LULU NAJMI , Drs. Tofan Dwi Hardjanto, MA ETD Swear words are often heard and spoken spontaneously. They are usually intended to express when angry, depressed, joking, hateful, frustrated, disappointed, surprised, or excited. This graduating paper examines swear words found in the American movie Midnight Run. The data used in this research were dialogues containing swear words. The results show that 193 swear words were found in the movie. 10 swear words (5.2%) belong to anatomical terms, 19 (9.9%) to animal terms, 89 (46.2%) to copulative terms, 29 (15.1%) to excretory terms, 9 (4.5%) to imbecilic terms, 16 (8.3%) to religious terms, and 21 (10.8%) to spirits or death terms. This shows that copulative terms are the most commonly used for swearing. This research also found 7 functions used in this movie. The most commonly used function is for expressing anger 106 (55%), expressing amazement 36 (18.7%), expressing annoyance 20 (10.3%), expressing intimacy 14 (7.2%), expressing insult 13 (6.7%), expressing disappointment 3 (1.6%), and expressing regret 1 (0.5%). [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014 Thesis NonPeerReviewed , R.A. KHOIRI LULU NAJMI and , Drs. Tofan Dwi Hardjanto, MA (2014) SWEAR WORDS IN THE MOVIE MIDNIGHT RUN. UNSPECIFIED thesis, UNSPECIFIED. http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=66963
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