Abstract
The study was aimed to find out the types of swearing and taboo words and to analyze the emotion that influences the use of swearing and taboo words of the main character in I, Tonya movie. The data was collected by using the documentation method and note-taking technique from the movie I, Tonya. The movie was an American Biographical comedy-drama based on a true story of Tonya Harding’s life. The data was analyzed descriptive qualitatively with the reducing technique based on the theory of women’s language features proposed by Lakoff (2004) and the theory of Barrett (1985) about the constructed emotion as the supporting theory. The collection process has found 65 data in which five of them being reduced as it has similar explanations as the data being shown. Those five data with each of their emotional influences, namely bitches; arrogance, bullshit; disappointment, suck my dick; anger, fuck; pleasure and confident, god damn it; surprise and panic. Those five data showed the contradiction to the theory of Lakoff about women’s language particularly in using swear and taboo words.
Highlights
Language is a communication tool to express the ideas and emotion of its speaker (Sapir, 1921:8)
She discovered the linguistic feature in women‟s language namely lexical hedge, tag question, rising intonation, empty adjective, precise color term, intensifier, superpolite form, hypercorrect grammar, swearing and taboo word and emphatic stress
Based on the foregoing introduction, this study aims to find out the types of swearing and taboo words and to analyze the emotion that influences the use of swearing and taboo words of the main character in I, Tonya movie
Summary
Language is a communication tool to express the ideas and emotion of its speaker (Sapir, 1921:8). According to Wardhaugh (2010:316), the use of language in society was determined by the gender in which its influence the form of the language, the purpose of speech and the way of speaking. Lakoff (2004) in her book, “Language and Woman‟s Place: Text and Commentaries”, proposed linguistic features that differentiate the way of how men and women speak. She discovered the linguistic feature in women‟s language namely lexical hedge, tag question, rising intonation, empty adjective, precise color term, intensifier, superpolite form, hypercorrect grammar, swearing and taboo word and emphatic stress. Women‟s language is immature, indecisive, using figurative words, careful when expressing things and often use refined and polite words
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