Comparison of Indonesian and Korean Swear Words Reference: A case study of humorous discourses of webtoon and meme

DOI

10.2991/icollite-18.2019.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

comparative of swear words; cultural identity; Indonesian and Korean swear words; meme; webtoon

Abstract

Swear words can be referred as a means of expressing feelings. Therefore, the use of swear words is a linguistic phenomenon existing in Indonesian and Korean. Cultural and linguistic background of speakers, however, creates distinctive features of the words. Through the respective features, social characteristics of language community can be clearly reflected. This study aims to describe the difference and similarity of swear words reference in Indonesian and Korean depicted at humorous discourses of webtoon and meme. It is a descriptive-qualitative research. The data were collected from webtoon and meme as the result of observation and documentation. The analysis shows that there is pair of Indonesian and Korean swears words with similar reference, yet the meaning is slightly different. It indicates that there are similarity and difference between Indonesian and Korean. Finally, each language (Indonesian and Korean) has distinctive feature of swear words.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Zakiah Nur Fatimah Az’Zahrah
AU  - Nunung Sitaresmi
AU  - Lilis Siti Sulistyaningsih
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Comparison of Indonesian and Korean Swear Words Reference: A case study of humorous discourses of webtoon and meme
BT  - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 305
EP  - 307
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icollite-18.2019.67
DO  - 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.67
ID  - Az’Zahrah2019/03
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