Dysphemism Found In “Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!” Movie Script

Hadi, Febby Surya (2023) Dysphemism Found In “Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!” Movie Script. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

This research investigates the dysphemism in the movie script of “Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!” This research is aimed at finding the types and the functions of dysphemism, as well as determining the influence of cultural background differences on the use of dysphemism in the movie script. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this research. The data is taken from the utterances of Ronny in the movie. Allan and Burridge (2006) theory on dysphemism is employed in this research. The findings revealed that there are 101 dysphemistic words and phrases found in the movie script. There are five types and six functions found in the utterances of Ronny Chieng. In addition, the researcher found parents’ terms used as curse words, which does not reflect Asian culture. The researcher can conclude that dysphemism is mostly used with negative intentions by using negative terms. However, one dysphemistic term turns out to function as positive intentions despite the terms used might still considered offensive. The cultural background is indeed influencing the use of dysphemism. Further researchers are suggested to conduct a research on dysphemism by comparing the dysphemistic words or phrases between Asian and American stand-up comedians, since this research only examines one multicultural stand-up comedian.

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