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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study attempts to analyze the use of swear words. The writer used
the 8 mile as the analyzed media. The subjects of this study were the two main
male characters of 8 Mile movie, because there were a lot of swear words that the
characters used, so that the writer could analyze and categorize the use of swear
words easily based on the use and the reason. The swear words were categorized
into 7 types using Liedlich?s theory of swear words, i.e. animal terms, copulative
terms, death, excretory term, mother-in-law-term, sexual irregularities term, and
miscellaneous. From all the analysis that the writer did, Jimmy often used
swearword with copulative terms categories in the conversation, in which ?fuck?
as the kinds of swearword from copulative terms that he often used, different from
David who often used excretory terms categories in the conversation. The main
characters have no purposes in using the swearwords. Related to the language use
and ethnicity, language has a setting. The people that speak it belong to a race or
ethnicity (or a number of races), that is, to a group which is set off by physical
characteristics from any other group. Thus, different race or ethnicity will have
different language style, and of course including its swear words too. There are
some purposes that the characters used in using swearwords such as creating
attention, discrediting, provoking, creating strong interpersonal identification,
providing catharsis, no purpose or habit.