An Analysis of Swear words Used in “The Pacifier” Movie

Abstract

This thesis deals with swear word in comedy movie script. The aims of this thesis are to find out the categories, the categories of swear words are mostly used and reason of sewar word.The data source of this thesis is comedy movie script “The Pacifier”. The researcher takes 23 data of swear words in “The Pacifier” movie. The method of collecting data is watching The Pacifier movie several times. The second step was transcribing all the conversations in the movie. It was done to make the process of identifying utterances became easier. The third step was to identify the swear words which occurred in the conversations. The method of analyzing data is qualitative. The result is shown there are six categories of swear words are Copulative terms (35%), Related to Human Genital terms (13%), Excretory terms (13%), Death terms (13%), Sexual Irregularities terms (9%), and Animal terms (17%). With regard to the reasons of swearing used by the actors of “The Pacifier” Movie, it was found that there is only one reason of swearing. The only reason of swearing is expressing emotions. With regard to the most reason of swearing used by the actors of “The Pacifier” Movie, it was found that expressing emotions (100%) was the most preferred reason. With regard to the swear words mostly expressed by the actors, it was found that Copulative terms (35%) was the most preferred swear words expressed by the actors. The least preferred swear term expressed by the actors was Sexual Irregularities terms (9%).

Key words : Swear Words, The Pacifier, Movie