5. Note Episode 01
S: “Its a trick… just a magic trick.” J: “No. All right, stop it now.”
S: “Now, stay exactly where you are. Dont move” J: “All right.”
S: “Keep your eyes fixed on me. Please, would you do this for me?” J: “Do what?”
S: “This phone call, its er… Its my note. Its what people do, dont
they? Leave a note.” J: “Leave a note when?”
S: “Goodbye, John.” J: “No. Dont...”
S: Throw phone and then jump off the roof J: “Sherlock”
a. Context 1 Characters
: John J and Sherlock S 2 Setting
: St Bartholomew’s Hospital 3 Context of Situation: Sherlock is on the roof of a building
talking to John via cell phone. He wanted John be the last person he talked to before he killed himself. He decided to
kill himself because of the media in Brittain attacked him by saying that he was just a fake detective, and the only one
who could prove his innocence was the one who designed
all this conspiracy, James Moriarty. Moriarty shot himself to death to make his conspiracy complete and stain Sherlock’s
reputation forever.
b. Euphemism and Meaning
Note is a euphemism for ‘death note’. The type of this euphemism
is abstraction. When the word ‘death’ is removed, the main idea for
the phrase becomes unclear, turning something which is supposed to be the last note before someone is going to die into a usual note.
The type of meaning of this euphemism is conceptual meaning
because note has several conceptual meaning. It can be a reminder note, or student’s note, or birthday note. The note spoken by Sherlock
refers to his death note.
6. Affair Episode 01
C: “Well, absolutely no one should have been able to empty that bank account other than myself and Helen.”
S: “Why didnt you assume it was your wife?” C: “Because Ive always had total faith in her.”
S: “No, its because you emptied it. Weight-loss, hair dye, Botox.
Affair.”
a. Context 1 Characters
: Sherlock S and a client C
2 Setting : in Sherlock’s room
3 Context of Situation : Sherlock has a meeting with
clients, a married couple, and talk about the disappearance of their money in a shared bank account. Using his
deductive analysis skill, Sherlock solves the case on the spot.
b. Euphemism and Meaning
The word affair is a euphemism for ‘cheating’. The type of this
euphemism is borrowing. The word affair comes from the French à
faire which means ‘to do’.
The type of meaning of this euphemism is reflected meaning.
Reflected meaning is “the meaning which arises in cases of multiple conceptual meaning, when one sense of a word forms part of our
response to another sense.”
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The word affair does not always mean cheating on your lover, but it can also mean several things like:
‘needing money’ in the phrase financial affair; ‘diplomacy with neighbor country’ in the phrase foreign affair; etc. However, if the
word affair stands alone without its collocative, we, most of the time, will connect it to cheating, or love affair.
7. Give his life Episode 01
S: “Why would an agent give his life to tell us something incredibly
insignificant? Thats whats strange.”
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Geoffrey Leech, op.cit., 1985, p. 9 pp. 16-17
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