A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF TABOO WORDS IN THE EMERGENCY 2022 MOVIE

Aliffia, Firda. 2023. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Taboo Words in The Emergency
2022 movie. Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language
and Arts Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I Drs. Wahyu Widianto,
M.Pd. Advisor II Sri Wahyuni, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: Sociolinguistic, Taboo words, Emergency 2022 movie.
This research focuses on the Sociolinguistic Analysis of Taboo Words in The
Emergency 2022 Movie. The qualitative method used was content analysis. The
data of this research were taken from the Emergency 2022 movie. The data was
collected by watching the movie, reading the transcript, identifying the dialog, and
underlining the dialog that contains taboo words. The data were analyzed using
Batistella's theory to describe the types of taboo words and Wardhaugh's theory to
describe the function of taboo words. First, the result there are 143 taboo words
used by characters with percentages for each type: epithet 16 instances (11.2%),
profanity 22 instances (15.4%), vulgarity 10 instances (7%), and obscenity 95
instances (66.4%). The obscenity type is the most frequently used taboo word.
Second, there are four functions, which can be seen in the movie with the following
percentages: 23 cases (16.1%) to draw attention, 67 cases (46.8%) to show
contempt, 51 cases (35.7%) to be provocative, and 2 cases (1.4%) to mock
authority. The most common function in the Emergency 2022 film seems to be to
show contempt.