EUPHEMISM MANIFESTED IN THE DRESSMAKER MOVIE.

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EUPHEMISM MANIFESTED IN THE DRESSMAKER MOVIE

A THESIS

Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra

By:

IRA MAYA SOVIA HARAHAP

Registration Number: 2122220011

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ABSTRACT

Harahap, Ira Maya Sovia. 2122220011. Euphemism Manifested In The

Dressmaker Movie. Faculty of Language and Arts. State University of

Medan. 2017.

This thesis deals with the euphemism used by characters’ utterances in The Dressmaker movie. The study were aimed to know the types of euphemism in The Dressmaker movie script. The study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was The Dressmaker movie. The data of study were utterances produced by characters in the movie. The findings of the sentences uttered by characters showed that the types of euphemism: (1) metaphor (2) remodelling (3) circumlocution (4) clippings (5) full-ommision (6) metomyny (7) hyperbole and (8) understatement. The characters used the euphemism was in order to keep the relationship among them, not try embrasse the interlocutors,

keep listeners from losing face, and to conserve the somebody’s self-esteem.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Bismillah, first of all the writer would like to thanks to Allah SWT and the Prophet Muhammad SAW for the blessings during her academic years at English and Literature Department Faculty of Language and Arts (FBS) State University of Medan in completing the thesis. The writer is also very grateful to the following people:

 Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd., Rector of State University of Medan.  Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Deam of Faculty of Language and

Arts (FBS) State University of Medan for her advice and encouragement to complete the study.

 Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd, the Head of English and Literature

Department and Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English and

Literature Department, as well as her consultant.

 Syamsul Bahri, S.S, M.Hum., the Head of English Literature Study

Program, as well as her examiner and Nora Ronita, S.Pd, S.S, M.Hum.,

the Head of English Education Program for their encouragement to complete the thesis.

 Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan, S.S, M.Hum., her Consultan who has patiently given advice, suggetion, and correction during the completing this thesis.

 Drs. Muhammad Natsir, M.Hum, her Examiner who have kindly given correction and suggestion for the better thesis.

 All the Lecturers of English and Literature Department who have taught

and guided her during the academic years.

 Eis Sri Wahyuni, M.Pd, the administratio staff of English Department, who much helped her to fulfill this thesis.

 Her beloved parents, Cardik Harahap and Samsinar Hutasuhut, who

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love and their prayers, as well as her beloved sisters and brothers, who have been good siblings all the time.

 Her closest man, Rheza Wira Nanda, for reminding me that even broken

things can be loved.

 Her soul sisters, Yuliana Sari, S.Pd, and Dina Afriani, S.Kom who share

everthing since they build a friendship in high school.

 Her beautiful friends in college time Muhammad Ridho Wibowo, S.S,

and Try Sari Silitonga, S.S, who always gave motivation and helped her anytime anywhere.

 Her friends in college time Prastyo, Mutia Suri, S.S, Rio Sitorus, S.S,

for the years and still counting friendship and the support in all situation.  Her classmates in English Literature B 2012 for the support and time in

motivated and accompanied her during the academic years.

Medan, Maret 2017

The Writer

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A. Theoretical Framework... 6

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LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX A ... 45

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

As social creature, people could not be separated from influences of others,

and almost all of human activities are connected to other people. The way to keep

good social relationship in verbal communication, the speaker must avoid the term

or the words which is insulting the listener, embrassing the interlocutor, attaching the listener’s self esteem or in another word make the listener loss his face. The

term known as dangerous word, taboo word or dysphemism which known by

speaker but avoided in some, most, or all forms or context of speech, for reason

of religion, decorum politness, and etc. It is clear when we used taboo word it

means we attack the listener or make the listener undergoes loss is face.

Allan & Burridge (1991:52) say that the subject of taboo can vary widely like

in sex area, bodily effluvia, bodily function, death, religious matter, dangerous

animal, political issue even, and diseases. Sometimes people hardly to mention the

spesific organ of reproduction because the name of the spesific organ is taboo to

be mentioned and they prefer to change the name of spesific organ into other

terms.

Taboo words were prohibited to mention and gave the bad effect, people

create a new words or renamed them to get better sound but still have a meaning

that related to it. That is the reason why they applied Euphemism. Centralized to

Allan & Burridge (1991), Euphemism used an alternative to dispreferred

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expression in order to avoid possible loss of face either one’s own face or through

giving offense, that of the audience, or of some third party.

This euphemism surely gave an effect to language change through the

emergence or loss of face of some sense of lexemes, or suitable replacement in the

higher style. Many euphemisms were figurative, and some of them were being the

cause of semantic change. This semantic change lead the new meaning may

changed because of the exchange of perception or the similarity of characters.

Movie is the one of literary works and it is one of the objects of literary

criticism. Movie is a form of entertainment that give visualization through a

sequence of images giving some pictures of continous movement and it is also

called term that create story into motion pictures completed by audio and as a

form dramatic performance that is recorded as a moving image, even it is added

special effects to make a magnificent image.

There have been some studies related to euphemism used in utterances.

Farida (2008) conducted a research and found that euphemism in English was not

just used smooth idiom or phrase, but to make the words as smooth as possible

and avoid the missunderstanding and uncomfortable situation in conversation.

Generally euphemism is divided into three categories, they are fear, unpleasant topics and taboos. All categories was found in Dan Brown’s novel The Da VinCi

that represent the death.

Hojati (2012) was said that the use of euphemisms has increased by the media

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carried out with the aim at eliciting and qualitatively examining a number of

high-frequency euphemisms employed by English-speaking media. He calculated

frequencies of different euphemisms used by the media organizations revealed

that poverty- and military-related euphemism figured prominently in the news

bulletins, while euphemisms dealing with economy, disability, death and sex had

lower frequencies of use. This divisiveness also holds true for the military

euphemism collateral damage/deaths, which as this study shows, had a high

frequency of use. It has been used many times by warring parties to mildly refer to

the allegedly unintentional infliction of harm to non-combatants in war situations.

Different from the two studies, Rusdiah (2013) who studied on

code-switching serves a euphemism, and to investigated euphemisms used by the

Indonesian speakers in their utterances in Bahasa Indonesia, local languages, and

foreign languages English and Arabic. The result of the research indicated that

there were 30 euphemism in words or phrases found in the Indonesian speakers,

they are five euphemisms from Bahasa Indonesia, 11 euphemisms from English

and 13 euphemisms in Buginese language.

From those studies above, this research would be different. This research

would be focused on euphemism terms taken from The Dressmaker movie script.

The writer chosed this movie because it had a reflection about human life, and this

movie has the point how characters used euphemism. This movie is directed by

Moorhouse in 2015, in this movie Myrtle Dunnage as a main character and

branded a murderer Stewart's Pettyman. Myrtle tried to prove that herslef not

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were still moked her with bad words by using euphemism. In conducting this

research the writer focused on the euphemism term used in the movie.

B. The Problem of the Study

Based on the background of the study described above, there were two

problems of the study:

1. What types of euphemism are used by characters in their dialogue in The

Dressmaker movie script?

2. Why are the types of euphemism used by characters?

C. The Objective of the Study

The objectives of this study based on the problems described previous were:

1. To find out the types of euphemism are used by characters in their

dialogues in The Dressmaker movie script.

2. To describe the used of euphemism by characters in their dialogues in The

Dressmaker movie script.

D. The Scope of the Study

In this study, the writer limited the discussion of euphemism which is used by

characters in The Dressmaker movie. The analysis would based on the theory of

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E. The Significance of the Study

The writes is expected the findings of the study would be useful and relevant

theoretically and practically:

1. Theoretically, the results of this study were expected to enrich the

knowledge of students in euphemism.

2. Practically, this research could give more contributions for everyone

especially whole members of English and Literature Department Statre

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

After analyzing the movie, finally the writer concluded:

1. There were 8 types euphemism were occured in The Dressmaker

movie script. There are methapor, remodelling, circumlocution,

clippings, full-ommision, metonymy, hyperbole, and understatement.

2. The characters used the euphemism is in to order to keep the

1. For English department student, they may use this study as a reference

to understand the study of linguistics related to euphemism and apply

it in the daily life especially in speaking.

2. For future researchers or reader could be more pay attention in kind of

types euphemism in order to can distinguish clearly between one type

with the others, because there are some types that make us confused.

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