Figure 1
Screenshots from film Bad Boys II.
Figure 2
Screenshots from film Intolerable Cruelty.
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| Are you fucking kidding me? | American Pie: Beta House |
| Oh shit! Fucking no! | Another Day in Paradise |
| Don’t fucking die on me, Mia. | Pulp Fiction |
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| Nigger fell through that. | Pulp Fiction |
| This cocksucker is an arch criminal. | Goodfellas |
| Shoot that motherfucker! | Jarhead |
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| You are fucking with traditions, Edgar. | American Pie: Beta House |
| Give him his money and we’ll get the fuck out. | Goodfellas |
| You my nigga? | Pulp Fiction |
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| Your ass ain’t talking your way out of this shit. | Pulp Fiction |
| I’m scared shitless. | Another Day in Paradise |
| They are busting my balls over it. | Goodfellas |
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| Twenty-five fucking years. | Goodfellas |
| Don’t spoil the joke, asshole. | Jarhead |
| We are done with this psychiatry bullshit. | The Departed |
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| He’ll be a pussy magnet, baby. | American Pie: Beta House |
| – Fuck yourself. – I’m tired from fucking your wife. – How’s your mother? – Tired from fucking my father. | The Departed |
| You are going to make a fucking cake. | Goodfellas |
| EXAMPLES | FILM |
|---|---|
| Come here, you piece of shit. | Goodfellas |
| You don’t fucking hit him. | The Departed |
| Let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks quite yet. | Pulp Fiction |
Table 1
Intratextual and extratextual functions of taboo language in films. A typology.
| Intratextual function | Expletive function |
| Abusive function | |
| Social function | |
| Stylistic function | |
| Extratextual function | Mimetic function |
| Comic function | |
| Ideological function |
Table 2
Total number and frequency per minute of taboo words in the source texts.
| FILM | NUMBER OF TABOO WORDS | FREQUENCY OF TABOO WORDS PER MINUTE |
|---|---|---|
| Another Day in Paradise | 400 | 3.9 |
| Jarhead | 432 | 3.2 |
| Pulp Fiction | 437 | 2.8 |
| The Departed | 378 | 2.5 |
| Goodfellas | 341 | 2.3 |
| American Pie: Beta House | 81 | 1 |