Journal by Arif Ishartadi
Offensive describes words or phrases that may offend some people. There are several offensive wor... more Offensive describes words or phrases that may offend some people. There are several offensive words which are used by characters in the short story " Of Mice and Men ". Yet, how the several characters of the story utter the offensive words is based on situations whose stimuli are different. This paper seeks to find out how offensive words or phrases that uttered by the several characters would help " Of Mice and Men " readers to know the characterization of those characters and the stimuli that makes offensive word or phrase used by several characters in this story. The writer applies Bloomfield's concept of the behaviorism. The method used is the method of descriptive analysis in order to describe the meaning of the offensive words by using dictionary or secondary data. The result of the analysis shows that one character named George who gives a response of an offensive phrase 'that bastard bus driver' has a stimulus of a situation where he is speaking to Lennie about a tease the bus driver who didn't bring them to their destination, a ranch. So from the relation between response and stimuli we can predict the characterization of the characters in that story. ABSTRAK Bahasa Ofensif dijelaskan sebagai kata atau prase yang sering diucapkan dan mungkin menyebabkan beberapa orang tertentu merasa terganggu atau tersakiti. Ada beberapa kata ofensif yang digunakan oleh para karakter dalam cerpen " Of Mice and Men ". Bagaimana beberapa karakter mengucapkan kata ofensif tersebut didasarkan pada situasi yang memiliki stimulus-stimulus berbeda. Paper ini bertujuan mencari tahu bagaimana kata atau prase ofensif yang diucapkan oleh beberapa karakter akan membantu para pembaca untuk mengetahui karakterisasi dari para karakter dan mengetahui stimulus yang menyebabkan munculnya respon ofensif dalam cerita ini. Analysis ini berdasarkan konsep behaviorismenya Bloomfield. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode analisis deskriptif yang bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan makna dari kata-kata ofensif bengan menggunakan kamus dan data sekunder. Hasil analysis menunjukkan bahwa salah satu karakter bernama George yang memberikan respon sebuah berbentuk prase yang bersifat ofensif " that bastard bus driver " memiliki stimulus suatu situasi dimana dia sedang berbicara dengan Lennie, dia menyindir soal sopir bis yang tidak mengantarkan mereka ke peternakan, tempat tujuan mereka. Jadi, dari hubungan antara respon dan stimulus, kita bisa memprediksikan karakterisasi dari setiap karakter di cerita ini.
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