Abstract
This study is intended to find out and analyze on the Balinese swearwords that often used by the English private course students in Buleleng in their daily conversation. Due to the problems discussed, the theories suggested in this research include language definition, sociolinguistics and swearwords definition. The method applied in this research is descriptive qualitative in nature and the data are from the English private course students in Buleleng. The subjects of this research are five English course students that originally came from Buleleng and they also lived in Buleleng. Then, the data analysis is performed to search the kinds of swearwords that they used, the reason of Buleleng people using the swearwords and also how often they speak the swearwords. This study use the swearwords classification according to types of swearwords which stated by Hughes (1998). This study finds the swearwords at several term included word related to religious (pirata), word related to sex (naskleng), word from excrement (tai and bangkaan), word from name of animal (cicing and bojog), and word from mental illness (lengeh,and buduh). Altough those words are dirty or rude to be said, but it often used by the Buleleng people even from the children until the adult. It will still like that for the next many years, because that is their culture herritage from many years ago.
Highlights
Language has a function to make a relationship with other people
English language is used as an international language communication among the people in the world which come from different countries, cultures and language background
It can be conclude that sociolinguistic is study the relation between language and society which is related to participant of the language there are some languages which are so taboo and became a bad language for communication which is called swearword
Summary
Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language and society and identifies the social function of language. Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language and society In this case the sociolinguistic will identifying the social function of language and the ways it is used to convey the meaning (Holmes, 1992). People should know about the function and topic of the conversation that influence to the choices of language form. Based on those information, it can be conclude that sociolinguistic is study the relation between language and society which is related to participant of the language there are some languages which are so taboo and became a bad language for communication which is called swearword. The swearwords in these terms are the animal categorized weak, disguiting, beast or any other displeasure criterions such as: “ cow, swine pig (Hughes, 2006)
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