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Types of Swearing and Semantic Referents of Swear Words in Bad Boys Ii Movie PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TYPES OF SWEARING AND SEMANTIC REFERENTS OF SWEAR WORDS IN BAD BOYS II MOVIE A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English Language Education By Johan Tobias Kristiano Student Number: 141214050 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2018 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TYPES OF SWEARING AND SEMANTIC REFERENTS OF SWEAR WORDS IN BAD BOYS II MOVIE A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English Language Education By Johan Tobias Kristiano Student Number: 141214050 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2018 i PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A Sarjana Pendidikan Thesis on TYPES OF SWEARING AND SEMANTIC REFERENTS OF SWEAR WORDS IN BAD BOYS II MOVIE By Johan Tobias Kristiano Student Number: 141214050 Approved by Advisor Date Priyatno Ardi, S.Pd., M.Hum. 5 June 2018 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A Sarjana Pendidikan Thesis on TYPES OF SWEARING AND SEMANTIC REFERENTS OF SWEAR WORDS IN BAD BOYS II MOVIE By JOHAN TOBIAS KRISTIANO Student Number: 141214050 Defended before the Board of Examiners on 9 July 2018 and Declared Acceptable Board of Examiners Chairperson : Yohana Veniranda, S.Pd., M.Hum., M.A., Ph.D. ____________ Secretary : Christina Lhaksmita Anandari, S.Pd., Ed.M. ____________ Member : Priyatno Ardi, S.Pd., M.Hum. ____________ Member : Drs. Barli Bram, M.Ed., Ph.D. ____________ Member : Gregorius Punto Aji, S.Pd., M.Hum. ____________ Yogyakarta, 9 July 2018 Faculty of Teachers Training and Education Sanata Dharma University Dean, Dr. Yohanes Harsoyo, S.Pd., M.Si. iii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY I honestly declare that this thesis, which I have written, does not contain the work or parts of the work of other people, except those cited in the quotations and the references, as a scientific paper should. Yogyakarta, 5 June 2018 The Writer Johan Tobias Kristiano 141214050 iv PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS Yang bertandata tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma: Nama : Johan Tobias Kristiano Nomor Mahasiswa : 141214050 Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang berjudul: TYPES OF SWEARING AND SEMANTIC REFERENTS OF SWEAR WORDS IN BAD BOYS II MOVIE beserta perangkat yang diperlukan (bila ada). Dengan demikian saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma hak untuk menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk media lain, mengelolanya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas, dan mempublikasikannya di Internet atau media lain untuk kepentingan akademis tanpa perlu meminta ijin dari saya maupun memberikan royalti kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis. Demikian pernyataan ini saya buat dengan sebenarnya. Dibuat di Yogyakarta Pada tanggal: 5 Juni 2018 Yang menyatakan Johan Tobias Kristiano v PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT Kristiano, Johan Tobias. (2018). Types of swearing and semantic referents of swear words in Bad Boys II movie. Yogyakarta: English Language Education Study Program. Sanata Dharma University. Swearing is often considered to be a rude and offensive use of language by most cultures. Jay (2000) states that swearing habit is acquired through social learning process. This allows someone to start using swear words by imitating others. Since English is an international language, the use of English swear words has spread globally through modern media. Movies becomes one of the major media in spreading English swear words. In Indonesia, in which English is considered a foreign language, English movies are popular. Even some people say that they learn English through movies. Vocabulary, including swear words, is usually acquired from watching English movies. The swear words from the dialogue are imitated and used in daily conversations. Therefore, the researcher was interested in analysing the types of swearing and the semantic referents of swear words in an English movie. The movie entitled Bad Boys II was chosen as the object of the research. There were two research questions in this research: (1) Which types of swearing are used in Bad Boys II movie? and (2) Which semantic referents of swear words are used in Bad Boys II movie? In this research, the researcher used Ljung’s (2011) classification of swearing types based on their functions and Jay’s (2009) semantic referents of swear word classification. This research was a qualitative research which used content analysis method. The researcher watched Bad Boys II movie and listed all the swearing utterances found in the dialogue as the data. The types of swearing and the semantic referents of the swear words were classified using a table. In analysing the data, the researcher used Creswell’s (2009) qualitative data analysis procedure. It was found that Bad Boys II movie employed three types of swearing, namely stand-alones, slot fillers, and replacive swearing. Only two subcategories of stand-alones, namely oaths and ritual insults, and one subcategory of slot fillers, namely anaphoric use of epithets, were not found in the movie. For the semantic referents of the swear words, Bad Boys II used all the nine referents that Jay (2009) proposes. Sexual references and scatological and disgusting objects were the mostly used referents, while ancestral allusion was the least referred referent. Understanding the functions of swearing and the literal meanings of swear words is essential for communication. Not only will it help in avoiding unnecessary offensiveness, but also it will help in making the conversation more effective. Keyword: types of swearing, semantic referents of swear word, Bad Boys II movie vi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK Kristiano, Johan Tobias. (2018). Types of swearing and semantic referents of swear words in Bad Boys II movie. Yogyakarta: Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Mengumpat sering dianggap sebagai penggunaan bahasa yang kasar dan ofensif dalam kebanyakan budaya. Jay (2000) menyatakan bahwa kebiasaan mengumpat didapatkan melalui proses pembelajaran sosial. Hal ini menyebabkan seseorang dapat belajar mengumpat dengan meniru orang lain. Sebagaimana bahasa Inggris merupakan bahasa international, penggunaan kata umpatan bahasa Inggris telah menyebar secara global melalui media modern. Film menjadi salah satu media utama dalam penyabaran kata umpatan bahasa Inggris. Di Indonesia, dimana bahasa Inggris merupakan bahasa asing, film-film berbahasa Inggris cukup populer. Beberapa orang bahkan mengatakan bahwa mereka belajar bahasa Inggris melalui film. Kosakata, termasuk juga kata umpatan, merupakan hal yang umumnya dipelajari dari menonton film. Kata-kata umpatan dari dialog tersebut kemudian ditiru dan digunakan dalam percakapan sehari-hari. Oleh sebab itu, peneliti tertarik menganilisis jenis umpatan dan rujukan semantik dari kata umpatan pada sebuah film berbahasa Inggris. Film berjudul Bad Boys II dipilih sebagai objek penelitian. Ada dua pertanyaan yang akan dijawab oleh penelitian ini: (1) Jenis umpatan apa yang digunakan dalam film Bad Boys II? dan (2) Apa saja rujukan semantik kata umpatan yang digunakan dalam film Bad Boys II? Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti menggunakan klasifikasi jenis umpatan berdasarkan fungsinya dari Ljung (2011) dan klasifikasi rujukan semantik kata umpatan oleh Jay (2009). Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif yang menggunakan metode analisis konten. Peneliti menonton film Bad Boys II dan mencatat semua umpatan dari dialog sebagai data. Jenis umpatan dan rujukan semantic kata umpatan diklasifikasikan menggunakan sebuah tabel. Dalam melakukan analisis data, peneliti menggunakn prosedur analisis data kualitatif oleh Creswell (2009). Ditemukan bahwa film ini menggunakan tiga jenis umpatan yaitu stand- alones, slot fillers, dan replacive swearing. Dua subkategori dari stand-alones, yaitu oaths dan ritual insults, dan satu subkategori slot fillers yaitu anaphoric use of epithets yang tidak ditemukan. Bad Boys II menggunakan kesembilan kategori rujukan semantic kata umpatan yang Jay (2009) ajukan. Sexual references dan scatological and disgusting objects adalah yang paling sering digunakan, sedangkan ancestral allusions merupakan yang paling sedikit ditemukan. Memahami fungsi dari umpatan dan arti harfiah dari kata umpatan adalah penting dalam komunikasi. Tidak hanya hal ini dapat membantu dalam menghindari ketidaksopanan, tapi juga dapat membantu membuat percakapan lebih efektif. Kata kunci: types of swearing, semantic referents of swear word, Bad Boys II movie vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents G. Mudjiono and Yohana Fransiska Sri Sulistyawati for the supports during my lifetime. I also want to say thanks to my sister Yohana Gabriella Nanda Kristiani for being a nice sister and for helping me during my study in this university. Secondly, I would like to say thanks to Pak Priyatno Ardi, S.Pd., M.Hum. as my
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