Euphemisms in Conversations about Bullying Issues
A Study of Politeness
- 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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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Nurul Octavia AU - Iwa Lukmana AU - Andika Dutha Bachari PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/21 TI - Euphemisms in Conversations about Bullying Issues BT - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 537 EP - 541 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.083 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.083 ID - Octavia2021 ER -