University Students’ Perception in Using English Swear Words

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200220.006How to use a DOI?

Keywords

swear words, students, culture, psychology

Abstract

The present study was focused to find out the students’ perspective in using the words that were included as socially impolite. The subject was the students of the fifth semester at the English Education Department, State Islamic University, Jakarta. The data were collected using a questionnaire that was given two times. The findings were gathered to get the information about the students’ habits in using the profanity words, including which words that they used most to state their uneasy feeling or anger, how they acquired the words, and how did they feel after using them. The result showed that there were 10 swear words that were acknowledged by the students and several of them were considered very offensive, however, they admitted that it was difficult not to use them. It was also found out that the movie has the most influence in acquiring those words.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nida Husna
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/25
TI  - University Students’ Perception in Using English Swear Words
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 29
EP  - 34
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200220.006
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200220.006
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