The aim of this research is to describe the meaning relation and
semantic change that happened in euphemistic terms that found in the script
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono speech at John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University. The writer applies descriptive- qualitative method to
describe the types of meaning relation and semantic change that happened in
euphemistic terms. In the collecting data the writer applies the documentation
method in which the script found on the book Words That Shook the World
written by Richard Greene. Data analysis continued by using descriptive
method. From all the data analysis taken from the speech, the writer found
1.08% euphemism used in the speech, the types of euphemism used are
metonymy (32%), understatement (61%), and abstraction (7%). The writer
found that 9 euphemistic terms out of 11 data does have synonymy relation,
but only 2 euphemistic terms does not have semantic relation, they are
respect and emerging. The writer also found that 5 euphemistic terms out of
11 data undergo the semantic narrowing, they are university, authoritarian,
moderates, representative, and strategic, 3 euphemistic terms undergo the
semantic broadening, they are conflict, problem, and low-income, 2
euphemistic terms undergo the semantic shift, they are respect and
challenge, and 1 euphemistic terms undergo the amelioration, that is
emerging.

SI19032

SKR BSI 19032

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