TABOO WORDS IN
“
CRANK 2 : HIGH VOLTAGE
”
A THESIS
Submitted as the Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
FAJRI JANUARDI
Registration Number : 2113220013
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ART
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
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ABSTRACT
Januardi, Fajri, 2113220013. Taboo Words in “Crank 2 : High Voltage”. A Thesis, English, Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan, 2016.
The study deals with the Taboo words uttered by the character in Crank 2: High voltage movie . the objective on this study are to identify the types and the functions of taboo words uttered by the character in the movie. The source of the data were the video of Crank 2: High Voltage movie and its transcript and subtitle. The data were collected by selecting dialogues containing taboo words after watching the video and matching the transcript with the video carefully. The result of this study are state as follows : Firstly, Four types of taboo words occur in the movie. They are obcsenity,profaniy, vulgarity and ephitets. and the most dominant types of taboo word appeared was obcsenity taboo words. Secondly, four function of taboo words are found in the movie. To mock authority, to draw attention, to show contempt, and to be provocative. To show contempt was the most dominant appeared.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Great thanks and praise to the Almighty Allah SWT who has blessed and
given the ability to the write to complete her thesis as the partial fulfillment of the
requirements for degree of Sarjana Sastra at the English Department, Faculty of
Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and the
help of several individuals who always contributed and extended their valuable
assistances in the preparation and completion of this thesis. The writer’s special
appreciation goes to:
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd., the Rector of State University of
Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean Faculty of Language and Arts,
State University of Medan.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English and Literature
Department and as his Thesis Examiners, Dra. Meisuri, MA., the
Secretary of English Department, Syamsul Bahri, S.S, M.Hum., the
Head of English Non-Educational Program, Faculty of Languages and
Arts, State University of Medan.
Drs. Lidiman Sinaga, M.Hum. his Thesis Supervisor.
Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Pd. and Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan,
S.S, M.Hum. his Thesis Examiners.
All the lecturers in Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of
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Eis Sri Wahyuni, M.Pd., the Administration Staff of English
Department for helping the writer in preparing all the fulfillment in
conducting this thesis.
His beloved parents, (Alm) M. Nazir Koto and Yasnibar for the deepest
gratitude for their everlasting love, the patience, affection, prayer,
greatest supports, caring, and prayers to the writer. Thanks also given to
hisbrother and sister: Muhammad Fadli Hafiz, and Dewi Marlina.
All his beloved friends in English Literature A and B 2011, especially for
Riska Juli R, Nezayana Febriani, Swidanty Annisa, Eka Prastya, Sri Handayani Putri, Chairunnisa Lubis and others that cannot be
mentioned all. Thanks for their support, kindness, great love and care to
the writer, also warm hearted encouragement friendship in finishing this
thesis to the writer.
The people who direct or indirectly contributed in this study, your
kindness means a lot to me.
Medan, Maret 2016
The writer,
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CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 25
A. Research Design ... 25
B. The Source of Data... 25
C. The technique for Collecting Data... 25
D. The Technique for Analyzing Data ... 26
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 41
A. Conclusion ... 41
B. Suggestion ... 41
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 4.1 Table of Ephitets ... 28
Table 4.2 Table of Profanity ... 30
Table 4.3 Table of Vulgarity ... 31
Table 4.4 Table of Obsenity ... 33
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LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix A Type of Taboo Word in The Dialogue ... 45
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.The Background of The Study
People in every part of the world watch movies as a type of entertainment,
a way to have fun. It can be one of favorite entertainment in our life.Movies can
be fictional (made up), or true, or a mix of the two. Although hundreds of movies
are made every year, there are very few that do not follow a small number of set
plots, or stories. By watching to the movie, it can make as feel happy, sad, even
fear. An also by the movie we can know more about cultural or histories in
another countries. Movies can also influence our emotion base on what the genre
was watched.
Nowadays, so many equipments to watch movie, we can download it in
internet and we enjoy it in another equipment, such as mobile phone. It is also
avaible in video CD. Some movies have subtitle, the purpose of the subtitle itself
to make the viewers become easier to get the massage or to know what the movie
talking about.
There are many genres in the movie. Such as : Action movies have a lot of
exciting effects like car chases and gun fights, involving stuntmen, Comedies are
funny movies about people being silly or doing unusual things that make the
audience laugh, Science fiction movies are set in the future or in outer
space,Thrillers are usually about a mystery, strange event, or crime that needs to
be solved, Dramas are serious, and often about people falling in love or needing to
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Voltage movie, there are dialogue “Who's gots my fucking strawberry tart?” which contain taboo word.
For teenagers they know taboo word from the movie and considered as bad
word. But nowadays, supringly those words are used arbitrarily and considered as
the style in conversation for them.We will shock when we hear a teenager or even
a primary school student talking that contain taboo words. They do not know the
meaning, even some of them know the meaning but they do not care. Many taboo
word or dirty word are used freely and become trend not only in the movies. They
don’t know what types of taboo words that they used. This condition will cause a
problem in our society, and influence our culture. That also can impact our formal
language, which has its own standart rules.
This study, the researcher chooses a movie as medium of investigation
because it is very popular medium in showing the social interaction in real life.
The researcher uses “Crank 2 : High Voltage“ movie as the subject of the study because the researcher finds some language taboo which is so rude or offensive in
using taboo word to express an anger, annoyance, insult someone directly. The
reseacher also finds some language phenomena in the society that many people
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B.The Problem of Study
Related to the background, the problem of study were:
1. What types of taboo words are used in Crank 2 : High Voltage movie?
2. What is the dominant type of taboo words are used in Crank 2 : High
Voltage movie?
3. What are functions of taboo words used in Crank 2 : High Voltage movie?
C.The Scope of Study
The study is aimed and purposed to find out the types of taboo words in
Crank 2 : High Voltage movie. It is helpful for the readers to understand the
meaning of taboo words base on the fact.
D.The Objective of The Study
Based on the relation problems of the study, the objectives of study are:
1. To find out the types of taboo words in Crank 2 : High Voltage movie.
2. To find out the dominant type of taboo words in Crank 2 : High Voltage
movie.
3. To find out the functions of taboo words used in Crank 2 : High Voltage
movie.
E.The Significance of The Study
The reseacher expects that the research will contribute a great significance
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additional information to the other linguistic research. Practically, This study is
useful for readers and viewers movies especially in common because through this
study, the readers will have new knowledge about taboo words especially about
the types of taboo word and function of taboo words in conversation. Moreover,
the readers will be able to understand that taboo words are bad forms of language
that cannot be spoken in any situation. To other researchers this research can be
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A.Conclusion
Based on the data and the data analysis in chapter IV, some conclusion can
be formulated as follow:
1. All of taboo words that consist of obscenity, profanity, vulgarity, and ephitet
appeared in the movie. Obscenity were 175 (62.3%), ephitet were 49
(17.4%), profanity were 30 (10.7%), and Vulgarity were 27 (9.6%).
2. The highest frequency of the types of taboo words was obscenity appeared
175 times out of 281 total data (62.3%). And the lowest was obtained by
Vulgarity appeared 27 times out of 281 total data (9.6%).
3. There are four function appeared in the movie: to show contempt, to draw
attention to oneself, to be provocative, to mock authority. To show contempt
gets the highest percentage with 63,7% and appeared 179. The lowest
function was to mock authority with 1,8% and appeared 5 times.
B.Suggestion
Based on the conclusion above, some suggestion can be stated as follows:
1. To readers and students of linguistics, A movie which is the representation
of human real life can be a good and interesting medium to learnt. But we
have to know that sometimes a lot of movie contain some kinds of taboo
words. We should know the meaning of each words. And we have to know
the function of taboo words itself because the fuction of taboo word is not
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always that the speaker wants to hurt other people’s feeling. They can be
functioned to show a good relationship by calling one’s name with the
certain types of taboo word.
2. To other researchers, this research focused on identifying the types of taboo
words and also the fuctions of taboo words in movie “Crank 2: High
Voltage” movie. There are other problem such as taboo words in gender or
taboo words in social status which were not analyzed in this research.
Similar research that will be conduct in the futue are better to discuss those
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