Syukriya, Ulifati (2012) Euphemism used in “Freedom Writers” movie. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Euphemism is an important expression to explore the things, word, phrases and sentence by a language user to cover them up to make their sound better both for the speaker and the listener. Also, euphemism can be used to keep a relationship between the speaker and listener as an implementation of good social interaction.
The researcher chose this Freedom Writers movie as the object of the study with some reason; First, Freedom Writers is made based on the real story in education world, it indicates that the euphemism happens in the reality communication through in education. Second, this movie draws the reality of racism happen in the school and bad influence caused by racism during learning and teaching process. Third, this movie also pictured the ways are used by the teacher (Erin Gruwell) in facing their students which contains of various races
The objectives of this study are finding the types and the function of euphemism used by the characters of Freedom Writers movie. The research design is used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The key instrument of this research is the researcher herself. The primary sources of this research are the movie of Freedom Writers and the manuscript of Freedom Writers Movie. The researcher analyzes the words, phrases and sentences are containing euphemism and then classified in the certain categories, those are types and function of euphemism. And the last is drawing the conclusion based on research findings.
As the result, the researcher found 22 utterances related to euphemism. From those utterances the researcher found seven types; those are acronym, understatement, clipping, circumlocution, metaphor, hyperbole and general to specific. And the researcher found eleven functions of euphemism; those are to show one-sidedness, to emphasize, to show attention, to keep position, to simplify, to make a polite communication, to cover some evil of incident, to show acceptation, to show respectability, to appreciate and to give spirit of live.
Finally, it is hoped for further researchers to conduct the research, which is focused on the function of euphemism in three or more different objects of study, for example to identify the function of euphemism found in various newspapers. Second, it is hoped that the study of euphemism is not focused on English language but also in other languages. The last, the researchers also suggests to the further researchers to study euphemism used related to the effectiveness in communication, how far it is effective or not.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Rahardjo, Mudjia | ||||||
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Keywords: | Euphemism; Politeness and Freedom Writers Movie | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Nada Auliya Sarasawitri | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2023 13:50 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2023 13:50 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/47810 |
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