Swear words used by male and female gamers in selected virtual game-review video on Youtube

Indriyanti, Novi Hirena (2017) Swear words used by male and female gamers in selected virtual game-review video on Youtube. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

[img]
Preview
Text (COVER)
1_cover.pdf

Download (261kB) | Preview
[img]
Preview
Text (ABSTRAK)
2_abstrak.pdf

Download (387kB) | Preview
[img]
Preview
Text (DAFTAR ISI)
3_daftar isi.pdf

Download (403kB) | Preview
[img]
Preview
Text (BAB I)
4_bab1.pdf

Download (517kB) | Preview
[img] Text (BAB II)
5_bab2.pdf
Restricted to Registered users only

Download (692kB)
[img] Text (BAB III)
6_bab3.pdf
Restricted to Registered users only

Download (515kB)
[img] Text (BAB IV)
7_bab4.pdf
Restricted to Registered users only

Download (662kB)
[img] Text (BAB V)
8_bab5.pdf
Restricted to Registered users only

Download (385kB)
[img] Text (DAFTAR PUSTAKA)
9_daftar pustaka.pdf
Restricted to Registered users only

Download (381kB)

Abstract

The purposes of this research are 1) to discover the categories and dominant categories of swear words used by male and female gamers, 2) to reveal the reason of swearing by male and female gamers. This research refers to the theory of Ljung about swearing. This research applies qualitative method with content analysis approach to find out the objective of the research and select the data by purposive sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher applies document collection and the videos were selected and downloaded from www.youtube.com by the researcher. The data is analyzed through preparing, coding, representing the findings, interpreting and finally concluding and suggesting by the researcher. The results showed that there are 261 times of swearing utterances (95 times by female and 166 times by male) contained 30 different types of words in 7 categories of swear words. These are the religious theme (11 types), the scatological theme (6 types), the sex organs theme (1 type), the sexual activities theme (3 types), the mother (family) theme (3 types), the minor theme (2 types), euphemism type (4 types). Also, there are 15 reasons which caused the speaker to swear. Those are swearing for expressing emotive reason such as happy, relaxed, grateful, hopeful, anger, annoyance, peeved, scared, triggered, surprised, panic, bored, disappointment and for doing something as well as for exclamation only. Based on the results, in conclusion, the religious theme is the most dominant categories used by male and female gamers. Swearing commonly happened because of emotive reason in speaker’s feeling. Moreover, male gamers swore more often than female gamers and female gamers use euphemism more often than male.

Item Type: Thesis (Diploma)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Swearing; Swear Words; Gamers; Language and Gender; Youtube;
Subjects: Writing System
Divisions: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Rizal Mohamad Sihabudin
Date Deposited: 13 Feb 2020 07:15
Last Modified: 12 Mar 2020 02:52
URI: https://digilib.uinsgd.ac.id/id/eprint/29493

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item