Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

Euphemisms in Conversations about Bullying Issues

A Study of Politeness

Authors
Nurul Octavia*, Iwa Lukmana, Andika Dutha Bachari
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: nuruloctavia79@upi.edu
Corresponding Author
Nurul Octavia
Available Online 21 November 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.083How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Bullying; euphemism; politeness; YouTube
Abstract

Every taboo expression is often avoided by replacing the taboo words with other words considered more polite and refined, serving for the convenience of the speaker and the addressee. Euphemism is defined as a polite or indirect way of saying a taboo term. The purpose of this study is to show types of euphemisms and politeness strategies on the Gritte Agatha’s podcast about bullying issues. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method. In this study, the types of euphemism and politeness strategies were used in video recorded interviews on Gritte Agatha’s YouTube channel. The data included 3 video recorded interviews from Gritte Agatha’s YouTube channel which were transcribed into texts, and then the types of euphemism were analyzed by using the theory of Allan and Burridge (1991) and the politeness strategies were analyzed by using the theory of Brown and Levinson (1987). The results of this study indicate that there were four types of euphemism on Gritte Agatha’s podcast related to the issue of bullying, namely, understatement, substitute, metonymy, abbreviations. Meanwhile, the analysis found three types of politeness strategies, namely, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and bald on record strategy. From the three data obtained, it can be concluded that the type of euphemism which often appeared is the substitute type and the most used politeness strategy is the negative politeness strategy spoken by the victim of bullying.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 November 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-459-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.083How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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