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1.1 Background of the Study CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the background of the study, the research problem, the purpose of the study, scope and limitation, and also the definition of key terms. 1.1 Background of the Study Language, a framework of ordinary talked, manual, or composed images by implies of which human creatures, as individuals of a social bunch and members in its culture, express themselves. By utilizing the language, individuals could pass on their thought, their excitement, and all kind of the emotions (Wardhaugh, 2006). The capacities of the language incorporating with communication, the expression of personality, inventive expression, and enthusiastic discharge with others. Each person or a gather individuals has differentiating way and language utilize in their everyday discussion. The distant foundation such a social structures and an environment make them diverse with each other. In contempt of they have a few contrast class structure and atmosphere, English as an worldwide dialect acts joining together dialect between nations. English gets to be one of the foremost basic dialects to be examined as numerous magazines, song, objective books, novel, and indeed motion pictures are all design in English. The basic highlights that could be learned in English is about Sociolinguistics. How the language can influence the social perspective. Viewpoints that are included such as social standards, suspicions, setting, how the dialects is utilized, what are the feedbacks of the language within the society. The concerned of the sociolinguistics which are exploring the trade between the language and society with the objective being an improved understanding of the structure and how the language obligation in communication achieve the proportionate objective within the human science, beside attempting tp recognize how the social structures can be superior caught on throught the 1 study about language, how the exact phonetic highlight serve to characterize specific social arrangements (Wardhaugh, 2006). The language assortments vary between bunches detached by certain social factors, religion, arrange of instruction, sexual orientation, age, and numerous more. As the utilization of a dialect from one place to another, language administration shifts among social classes, and these sociolects that Sociolinguistics to be examined. The change of the dialect is by the society itself in how they utilize the dialect and how the influence to the society on their circumstances. The diverse culture of society makes a brand-new language. The illustration is that current of bad language in society. Bad language are the activity of speaking that a few individuals may disclose their disappointment, disturbance, and their feeling of outrage. All of those affectability cannot be confined as a parts of human being in their everyday life (Wardhaugh, 2006). Society utilize bad words stun others and appear how to bargain with their dislikeness on something. Analyzing the bad language is the aspect that the researcher focused. Profanity or bad language can be depicted as a language that is impressively hostyle by most individuals, it is commonly utilized by youngsters. Moreover, it appears to the personal’s charateristics. There are several aspect of bad language, for instance such as slang, taboo, vulgarity, and swearing. A few of these bad language create in a assortment of motion pictures, particularly in adult movies. Nonetheless, it is also crop up in comedy movies. The researchers is inquisitive in directing the study on the American Movies that employments an English language in the movie. The researcher employments “Ted 2” as the objects of the study, an American comedy motion pictures coordinated by Seth MacFarlane and composed by Wellesley Wild, Alec Sulkin and MacFarlane in 2015. This movie is a sequel from the previous movie by MacFarlane in 2012 titled “Ted”. The used of bad language in this movie are quite often showed up in the scenes of the movie. For these reason, “Ted 2” are commendable to be analyzed by the researcher. At this moment, the utilized of bad language are used to charm the watchers for the reason that the movie is interesting and funny. It is conceded that the information about bad language that 2 bring authority to the English learners. Bad language that consisted in the English movie, that will be exceptionally convenient for the learner to apperceive around information of bad language in arrange to illuminate the English learners and maintain a strategic distance from misjudgment in the terms of utilizing bad language. The researcher is interested in “bad langauge”. As bad languages have become an increasingly unique anomaly with a growing number of bad languages found and spoken by various groups, including from adults, teenagers even children to convey their feelings. In addition, when we look further, bad languages have develop into daily habits for some people, yet as we know swear words are taboo words that cannot be used in every community and every situation. However, over time, bad language attract more fans even for some people these wprds considered normal to be announced. Recently bad languages can be found in various places such as on social media, TV shows and even movie. Bad language produce not always bad meaning for those who apply it. Bad languages is equitable the way someone declares their feeling. 1.2 Research Problem These are the research problem based on the background of the research are defined: 1. What are the bad language within the “Ted 2” movie? 2. What are the types of bad language within the “Ted 2” movie? 3. What are the meaning of bad language within the “Ted 2” movie? 1.3 Purpose of the study The purpose of this study are defined as below: 1. Identify the bad language within the “Ted 2” movie. 2. Identify the types of bad language within the “Ted 2” movie. 3. Identify the meaning of bad languages within the “Ted 2” movie. 3 1.4 Significance of the Study The researcher hope that this study had a several advantages that could be convenient for the English apprentice in an educational or even wider. Moreover, this study could provide an useful information and offer assistance to associate with the foreign speakers. This study would be convenient to the Sociolinguistics aspect: 1. Educate the English learners and avoid the misjudgment within the term of utilize the bad language 2. Be used as a learning material for the English apprentice 1.5 Scope and limitation This analysis is designed to distinguish and finr the meaning of the bad languages utilized in the “Ted 2” movie, along the restriction of analyzing “Ted 2” movie that is directed by Seth MacFarlane and composed by Alec Sulkin, MacFarlane, and Wellesley Wild in 2015. 1.6 Definition of key terms • Analysis : The process of crumble down into the certain parts and to study about what they are achieve and how they connect with other variable (Matthews, 2005) • Language : Framework of subjective vocal images utilized for human communication (Wardhaugh, 2006) • Sociolinguistics : The division of the linguistics variation which studied the characteristics of a language that is obligate to the social reference along with dependent, interpretation of the circumstances (Chambers, 2003) • Bad Languages : Bad languages are the action of speaking that some people convey their frustration, annoyance, and their feeling of anger. All of those fellings cannot be separated as a parts of human being in their daily life (Wardhaugh, 2006) • Ted 2 : The movie directed by Seth MacFarlane and the story written by Alec Sulkin, MacFarlane, and Wellesley Wild in 2015 4 .
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