THE USE OF SWEAR WORDS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH TABOO WORDS IN FIST FIGHT MOVIE

Abstract

ABSTRACT
People use language to interact and understand each other. In conversation, people not
always use polite word but also taboo word for the example to support the situation like
friendliness, familiarity or identity among communities. The uses of taboo words also to
express a strong emotion feeling and it familiar as swear words. Swear words are the informal
words that are used by people to express their emotion in terrible situation. The existence of
swear words can be seen from various sources such as in movies, song lyrics, and television
shows. This research concern with the use of swears words and its relationship with taboo
words in Fist Fight movie. This movie was chosen as data source because there are many
swearing words uttered by the characters. This research were analyzed qualitatively and
quantitatively using theories from Batistela (2015) to find the types of taboo words and theory
proposed by Swan (1995) to find the types of swearing words. The result show that all types
of strong and weak swear word used by the character depends on the situation. Exclamation of
annoyance is dominantly appear in strong swear word and exclamation of surprised is dominant
used in weak swear word. All of strong swear word in Fist fight movie are considered as taboo
word that refer to epithets, profanity, vulgarity and obscenity types. There are only a few of
weak swear words that are considered as taboo word in English.
Keywords: swear word, taboo word, sociolinguistics, movie
ABSTRAK
Bahasa digunakan untuk berinteraksi dalam masyarakat. Dalam melangsungkan
percakapan, bahasa yang digunakan tidak selalu sopan terkadang juga menggunakan bahasa
tabu untuk mendukung situasi pertemanan, keakraban atau sebagai identitas antara
komunitas. Penggunaan bahasa tabu juga dapat digunakan untuk mengekspresikan perasaan
yang lebih dikenal dengan “swear words”. Swear word merupakan kata-kata dalam bentuk
informal yang digunakan untuk mengekspresikan perasaan dalam keadaan yang buruk.
Keberadaan swear word dapat dilihat dari beragam sumber seperti film, lirik lagu, acara tv.
Penelitian ini focus kepada penggunaan swear word dan hubungannya dengan bahasa tabu
dalam film Fist Fight. Film ini dipilih sebagai sumber data karena banyaknya swear word
yang digunakan oleh karakter. Penelitian ini dianalisis secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif
menggunakan teori dari Batistela (2015) tentang bahasa tabu dan teori dari Swan (1995)
tentang swear word. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu seluruh tipe dari strong swear word and
weak swear word ditemukan dalam film. Tipe swear word yang paling banyak muncul adalah
exclamation of annoyance, dan tipe yang paling banyak muncul di weak swear word adalah
exclamation of surprised. Seluruh tipe strong swear word termasuk dalam bahasa tabu yaitu
jenis epithets, profanity, vulgarity dan obscenity, namun tidak semua jenis weak swear word
termasuk dalam kategori bahasa tabu.