Review
article about Euphemism
Reviewed
by DewiSuriany
Title : Euphemism From Sociolinguistic
Prospective
Post
by : CHI REN ; HAO Yu
Changchun University of science and
technology, changchun, China
Pages
: 4 pages
The
article give us the material about Euphemism
Euphemism is good
language style in social communication, we have do it everyday wherever
we are. But, we must know it can be used in certain communities becouse it is
not only the expression received by society , but also style of language
imitated in certain environment in all aspect , such as social and politic,
religius, culture, and traditional morality and all of this refers to social
culture. According to Enrigh 1985,p.29 “
A language without Euphemismwould be a defective instrument of communication.
So, a language becomes dull and looks rude without euphemism.
Euphemism comes from the Greek word, Eu is well and Pheme
means speaking . In general meaning, it is word or frase or
communication style which are used in specific condition or conceal something
unpleasant. Briefly, Euphemism is the way how to speak why? Becouse, it may be
that someone will talk about something uncomfortable but with euphemism will
speak well. According to The New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998, p. 634 “Uepihemism
is a mild or inddirect word or expression substitud for one considered to be to
harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. And
it can be said it is useful in our daily life.
RQ:
Is it important Uephemism in the society ?
To answer this question, the researcher uses
experience and library research method
There are two bacic functions of
uephemism the “function of concealing” and or the
“function of veiling”. The distinction between the two functions is problematic
because the two verbs used to name them are synonymous. In fact, a single
euphemism can simultaneously fulfill both functions in discourse.
Function of concealing
In this function,
euphemism is very useful to evoid certain aspect of a word or concept that can
violate the norm, for example” war “ we can say “ crisis” intervention we can
say question. This euphemism depend on base of soft , to hiden the word but it
does not make it lose for the meaning
Function of veiling
In this fuction, euphemism
can fulfil the purpose and change to the reality segment so, euphemism show the
fact that attention from the listener is chosed by speaker, it is concern to the speaker. The example of this can we find out
from newspaper.
There are two reason use euphemism
1.Base of psychologically reason
This is connect to face
during communication, respect betwen each other or based on embarrassment, fear
based and courtesy to others.it can use for data processing information.
2. .A Balance Between Efficiency and Expressivity in
Communication
When the speaker speak,
the first purpose is communicate with
use the good strategy to make the efficient communication. We can see the magic
of euphemism when we used in communication.
Strengthen of this article is:
The author can explain in
sentences more clearly and easy to understand about Euphemism. It is really
important used in our society,sSo many thing that we have to concern during
communication you can see my reviewartcle
above. It is upsolutely, we must
use it in our life.
Weakness of this articles :
Fortunatly in this
article, there is no clearly example in sentences and how to use in dayly
activity in life. It’s a little bit dificult becouse it is not show us in
ccommunication.
Conclusion :
The resercher is really
nice to compile all the data in this article and take reference from experts
who give good explanation about Euphemism. The use of euphemism varies with the
gender, age,social status and occupation and cover various aspects of sosial
culture, including social conventions, traditional morality, religion, cocial
value and politics etc. However, it is not make us more satisfaction becouse it
is less example that we can use in our society.
