Margaretha Febriany Narahawarin, 2017. Swearword Pele in the Interaction of Merauke City Society (Under the supervision of Dr. Jenny Hilda Pakasi, M.A as Chairman of the Commission, and Dr. Leika M. V. Kalangi, MS as the member). SUMMARY Swearword pele using in the interaction of Merauke city society varies when viewed from the lingual form, the function of use, and the shift of meaning. Although people already knew the meaning of the swearword, people still use it daily until swearword becomes more politely. The writer is interested in doing this research because theoretically it is different from empirical use. This means that theoretically, swearword pele is a negative word, but empirically what happen in Merauke society it is not like that. This study aims to (1) identify, classify, and analyze the lingual form and function of …show more content…
The swearword pele has 27 functions, such as 13 functions based on the theory: insulting, threatening, surprising, hurting, as a joke, expressing to extreme emotion, expressing to unexpected pain, expressing to frustration or annoyance, strengthen the argument, disappointing, regretting, astonishing. Beside the 13 functions that support the theory, there are other 14 functions as the findings, namely: expressing praise, expressing awe, expressing to hope, expressing seduction, expressing a statement, asking, greeting, shocking, feeling offensive, complaining, complaining repeatedly, expelling, angry, expressing to indirectly emotions. Moreover, regarding the shift of meaning of the study show that there are two types of shift of meaning namely (1) the shift from generic meaning to the specific meaning (2) the shift of meaning as cultural viewpoint cause swearword pele experience amelioration namely a word which presently considered to have a positive value compare to previous
Since the 1930’s until now, studies show that about 64% of kids and teens have been using slang terms in their school work. It is amazing what some of them are. Slang is used all of the time by almost all people and has changed a lot over the past decades. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses a child’s perspective to show how slang has changed from the 1930’s until today.
The English language or any language for that matter is made up of just a cluster of words, but when those words are used inappropriately they can trigger emotions such as guilt, despair, and sorrow. Language is inappropriately used when Jana was referring to Tapka as “shithead”, “Gaylord” and “mental case” and Mark can be seen reflecting on her words when he thought, “I couldn’t help thinking, Poor
In the modern society, millions of people realize that several offensive words with insulting taboo meanings heavily disturb their daily lives and break some special groups of people’s respect to push them to feel like outsiders of the whole society. As a result, more and more people join some underway movements to eliminate the use of these offensive words in people’s everyday speech and writing. However, these offensive words themselves are not the culprit, the bad meanings people attach are the problems and some other functions of the words are useful in the society. Christopher M. Fairman the author of “ Saying It Is Hurtful, Banning It Is Worse” also argues that although
The marketing team used some tactics to a more powerful effect than others, and they used profanity in very memorable way. The marketing team could stand to assess if they could use the magical quality to a more powerful degree in the
Have Curse Words Become So Common They Have Lost Their Shock Value?Curse words started being used in school and are used against one another, but now students talk as if there is no meaning to them.In my opinion I think that curse words are used too much because, curse words are supposed to be used when you are mad, they are used in every sentence, and people curse everyday.
There is a nutria loose in the Enlgish language and it is rapidly devouring words and phrases. The corrosive usage of slang is deteriorating proper, or standard forms of English. What most consider to be a passing fad has been evident for as long as the English language. Change in the grammar and diction of a language is natural, and English is always confronted with changes. However, at some point speech mutated due to a metastratizing principle in which the most annoying words in the language colonize the host organism's brain and bully out less adaptable words which eventually fade into oblivion. It can be generalized that youths overuse slang terminology and most can vouch that annoyance is an understatement. It may have begun innocently enough with the utterance of "like", but the interjection is, like, so rapant it is like a disease. Several words and phrases are on the endangerment language list due to the atrocious attack of "like". Words and phrases such as really, including, said, the following, such as, and regarding are becomming less prominent in speech and literature. How often, when told a story, do you hear, "My teacher was like, 'Your repetative use of "like" is rather irritating?'" rather than "My teacher said, 'Your repetative use of "like" is rather irritating.'"? Past tense is now nonexistent and remaining is the pea brained characterization of any event, any shade of meaning, past, present, or future, relevent or irrelevant as "like". Often we speak fast, our mouths moving too rapidly for our brains. The result? The utterance of such words and phrases as you know, ummm, uhhh, hmm, so and eh. 'You know' has become a common phrase in the English language. Often you can readily expect a sentence to include the expression in such context as, "When I saw my essay mark I was disappointed you know? Not only did I put my effort into writing it, but time you know?" No, I apologize, I do not know. Perhaps if you were to take the time to think through what you wish to say and explain it in relative depth, I will. Now, in the vicious fight with "like" such words as umm, uhh, and hmm are beating the English language to the ground. Is it better to hear someone say "I'm like writing a like paper on the like English language" rather than "I'm.
In this study, I will first talk about the history of how these distinctive languages have developed. Then, I will examine the use of words in the contemporary Japanese language. This use of words will include the first person pronouns used in a speech, and also the sentence end particles. After the usage, I will use the experiment to conclude about the conversational dominance between male and female speaker. At the end, I would like to sum up with the explanation of why sexist languages still exist in Japan.
Sometimes, people can find slang within a city and see how it affects their surroundings and themselves as a person. In the story “Raymond’s Run” a little girl is surviving by running in New York. A mixture of running, hazel’s big brother “raymond” and the little fire that is it within her attitude builds a whirlwind of a story. Though the story itself is interesting enough, the author gave Hazel linguistics, the ability to “trash talk” in a slang way, which creates a whole new mood throughout the narrative. Toni Cade Bambara notes, “And I don’t play the dozens or believe in standing around with somebody in my face doing a lot of talking.” Linguistic can change everything from the words the world speaks to the actions everyone shows.
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Keeping the English language as well as gender-specific discriminatory words in mind, I wanted to raise the issue of how strong language is because of words.
The problem in todays society with language, is that language is changing rapidly due to the use of technology, and affecting individuals. When we are on our phones or computers, we use a form of language called “internet slang”. Internet slang words are abbreviated words such as “TTYL, BRB, LOL, GTG, etc… We are using this form of shorthand language to convey a message quicker, and people also do not want to take the time to write out the whole message. Some social media website, blogs, and phone texts, allow us only to use a certain amount of characters, so people tend to abbreviated or shorter
Over the past few years, more and more people have adopted Bekinese or the language of the Beckies (another term for some of the more flamboyant LGBT community members) in everyday life and speech. Between this and the distinct Filipino ability to play with and create from existing words, Pinoy slang has truly evolved into an aspect of linguistics worthy of an undergraduate thesis.
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What language we use, how we use it, and why we use it are all essential in others perceptions of us. If a man’s first comment to somebody is “Hey Baby, how you doing?” with a gloating tone and boastful...