The use of swear words in "The End of the F***ing World" TV series

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Safitri, Putri Cahyani (2021) The use of swear words in "The End of the F***ing World" TV series. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing swear words in “The End of the F***Ing World” TV Series. There are two problems to be solved in this study, namely: (1) what are the types of swear words used by the main characters at “The End of the F***ing World” TV Series and (2) what are the reactions of interlocutors on the use of swear words by the main characters at “The End of the F***ing World” TV Series. In this study, the data is the utterances from the characters. This study uses a descriptive qualitative design. The qualitative methods are used for phenomena in narrative or textual form. This research focused on swear words and the reaction of the interlocutor’s phenomenon then explained the phenomenon in the narrative description. This research formulates the conclusion by collecting, categorizing, and interpreting the data. The source of data is the script of the TV Series from 8 episodes.The finding showed that there are seven types of swear words. The researcher finds 93 utterances uttered by the main characters that contain swear words. Sex term is the dominant type of swear words with 49 data. This research also showed that there were five reactions of the interlocutors, they were no noticeable reaction, laughter, echo, self-echoic, and rejection. The researcher found that no noticeable reaction was dominant reactions of the interlocutors with 25 data.