Offensive Words No More: Perceptions of Senior High School Students on the Use of Expletive Words

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Assessing the understanding of learners in their communication pattern is one way to reflect on their values system. It determines the words that are considered offensive and tend to lead to violent reaction. The students' choice of words affects their communication skills and socialization. The causes of violent reaction are mostly from the harmful words that the speakers use that triggers the receiver of the message to react negatively. Then, this can result in physical blows and escalates the problems brought by offensive words which are the focus of this study.

METHODS

The researchers used a phenomenological method. In the theory of Neuro-Psychosocial Theory of speech by Timothy Jay, this explained the involvement of cursing. This section is devoted to the psychological underpinnings of cursing, treats such issues as a children's cognitive development and vocabulary learning from a principally behaviorist stance, and personality factors.

RESULTS

The result of this study defines its cause and effect relationship. The majority of the learners countered that the expletive words are the offensive, rude, and informal words that can harm people by the involvement of the violent reactions by means of physical blows and often affects the emotional aspects of a person. Some of the research participants answered the questions that expletive words are just an expression and sometimes used as a joke. The example words that the learners used and heard in the raw data under the chapter 4, the research participants had the majority answers of "tangina", "shit" and "motherfucker" while the others answered, "punyemas" and "gago". On the other hand, the said expletive words lead to physical blows like punching and kicking. This affects their behavior, understanding and communication skills.

DISCUSSIONS

This study assessed the research participants with their answers. We, the researchers conclude that the behavior of the students affects their thinking skills by engaging the use of expletive words that tend to lead in physical blows. Guidelines and seminars to the learners are the recommendations of this research. It indicates that the students need proper teaching in a formal set up.