Norjanah, Norjanah (2020) Taboo Words in Wild Child Movie. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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This research aims to investigate taboo words used by characters in Wild Child movie. The writer describes what types and functions of taboo words used in Wild Child movie. The sources of the data are the video of Wild Child movie and its transcript. The data are collected by selecting dialogues containing taboo words after watching the movie. The writer employs a theory from Batistella to describe the types of taboo words and a theory from Wardhaugh to describe the function of taboo words. The result of this research shows 29 taboo words in this movie. The result also shows that the types of taboo words in this research are classified into epithets, profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity. And the functions of taboo words are classified into to draw attention to oneself, to be provocative, to show contempt, and to mock authority. Furthermore, the writer find that the characters in Wild Child movie tend to use obscenity to draw attention to others as the movie contains extreme stunts.

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