Euphemism and Language Change: The Sixth and Seventh Ages

Burridge, Kate

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“…Euphemism presents negative perception from others since they are reluctant to say the truth directly (Enright, 2014). Burridge (2012) has opposite opinion; he declares that the use of euphemism indicates the speakers respect others. It helps students know speakers' attitude and help them to enhance the variety of English language.…”

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The Study of Taboo and Euphemism on the English Department Students in Universitas Pamulang

Haryati

2020

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This study was aimed to find out the kinds of taboo and euphemism words among college students of faculty of letter at Universitas Pamulang, and the reasons why the students select to utter taboo or euphemisms. A qualitative analysis including would be conducted in this research. The respondents of this study were the fourth semester students (regular A class) taking the speaking 4 at English department of Pamulang University academic year 2018/2019. Out of 176 students of the population, 40 students (20 males and 20 females) will be chosen as the samples based on the purposive sampling. To collect the data, the writer used two kinds of instruments: an observation of students’ speaking conversation and interview. These instruments were administered to answer stated research questions. As a result, the writer found that most male students preferred uttering taboo words, and the female students seemed to utter euphemism instead of taboo words. The result was influenced by some factors. Theoretically, the research finding would enrich the teachers’ skills to introduce euphemism as a substitution to replace the use of taboo words in students’ conversation and assist students to utter proper words in social situation that leads politeness.

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Section: The Understanding Of Euphemismmentioning

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The Study of Taboo and Euphemism on the English Department Students in Universitas Pamulang

Haryati

2020

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“…Para referirse a este fenómeno, algunos autores han hablado de la "función provocadora" del eufemismo (Burridge, 2012).…”

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El eufemismo léxico del discurso político y sus efectos cognitivos

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2017

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Resumen: En distintos estudios que se ocupan del eufemismo se ha puesto de relieve la función que desempeñan las expresiones eufemísticas en el discurso político como herramientas de las que se sirve el emisor para ocultarle al destinatario aquellos aspectos desagradables o inoportunos que podrían dañar su imagen (Rodríguez González, 1991;Roldán Pérez, 2003;Crespo Fernández, 2005a). Este artículo se fundamenta en una teoría pragmático-cognitiva del eufemismo (Chamizo Domínguez & Sánchez Benedito, 2000;Casas Gómez, 2009;Sytnyk, 2014) y explica los efectos que produce en la mente de los hablantes un conjunto de expresiones eufemísticas empleadas en el discurso político español durante los últimos años. En concreto, se propone la existencia de tres fenómenos que influyen en la representación mental de la realidad que construye el intérprete: el encuadre léxico, la obstrucción del acceso al referente y la estigmatización de conceptos.Palabras clave: discurso político -eufemismo -pragmática cognitiva -encuadre léxico -argumentación El eufemismo léxico del discurso político y sus efectos cognitivos* Nuria Barranco Flores Universidad de Oviedo España barranconuria@uniovi.es

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“…Online media often contain expressions of euphemism to refine meaning in order to avoid conflict [1] and [2] and dysphemism which are direct expressions instead of neutral expressions and have connotations of meaning that offend directly [3]. The expression of dysphemism is used to denigrate and humiliate or express disapproval of opponents and other matters.…”

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“…Strategy inside language or linguistic strategy, is a mechanism for the formation of euphemisms that involves elements of semantic meaning such as analogies, distortions, and borrowing where each part have a relationship between one another. Whereas the non-language strategy is the mechanism of replacing a certain lexical by euphemistic expression that caused by things that are outside the language [6]. In a certain context, online media also use different strategies than just presenting euphemisms in their reporting.…”

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Lexical Creation of Euphemism and Dysphemism in Online Media Text on Presidential Election 2019

Hasyim¹,

Nurkamto²,

Sumarlam³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Culture Studies, BA

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Euphemism and dysphemism as it used by online media become an interesting phenomenon, mainly when it was used as political weapon. Presidential election of Republic Indonesia on 2019 which was held on April 2019 cannot be separated from online media. Each party, candidate trough online media try to figure out their performance in order to raise voters. Maintaining face by using euphemism become the choice to avoid mistake and also blurred their idea. Furthermore, insulting opponent and evaluating their program, dysphemism is preferred. Online media, in line with the presidential election presented varies lexical creation of euphemism and dysphemism. Keith Allan and Kate Burridge have done many studies on euphemisms. Related to the phenomenon of theoretical euphemisms of this study would follow Keith Allan and Kate Burridge statements and several researchers who were concerned. The data were obtained from four online media, they are DetikNews, SindoNews, TribunNews, and CNN Indonesia and were analyzed by using framing analysis and also content analysis. The result of the research showed that the lexical creation of euphemism was: lexical mitigating, loan words and metaphorical equation. While the lexical creation of dysphemism was: lexical mitigation, metaphorical equation, and hyperbole.

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Euphemism and Language Change: The Sixth and Seventh Ages

Cited by 87 publications

References 16 publications

The Study of Taboo and Euphemism on the English Department Students in Universitas Pamulang

The Study of Taboo and Euphemism on the English Department Students in Universitas Pamulang

El eufemismo léxico del discurso político y sus efectos cognitivos

Lexical Creation of Euphemism and Dysphemism in Online Media Text on Presidential Election 2019

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