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‘Making out’ involves many people and contains general issues. It is evoked by the existence of [PEOPLE] and [COMMON] features. Meanwhile,
‘flirtation’ with [SEX] feature usually involves only 2 people usually a couple and lover. They surely do something specifically in sex area. These words
therefore have Semantic change in Semantic narrowing process in which the new meaning is considered less general than the earlier one.
5. Clippings
Data Example: 5
a Jessica: all right, wheres my wonder bra? p.21
The utterance is stated by Jessica. The situation is he has to toss his idea about womens products.
The implication of euphemism in this sentence occurs in the word ‘bra’. ‘Bra’ is able to counteract ‘brassiere’. ‘Brassiere’ is considered as a distasteful
word for below reasons: a Brassiere is a kind of women’s underwear.
b Brassiere connects directly to female sex organ, breast c The shape of brassiere consist of two concavities that looks like breasts it
self. d We feel disgusted with strangers underwear.
Therefore, brassiere is taboo in the connection to bodily effluvia. The brassiere connects directly to the sex organ breasts, as the private parts. It
surely motivates embarrassment to the owner of the underwear. Talking about someone’s underwear is similar to attract the private area. Let alone the
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conversation is in the opposite sex gender. Man and woman are different so they will consider brassier in the different way.
‘Bra’ is a modifying fonn of ‘brassiere’. It could be said that bra is the abbreviation of ‘brassiere’ that end - clipped. Both of them refer to females
cloth supporting and covering for the breasts. It usually starts using by girl in the age around teens in which their sex organ especially breasts are getting
grown. To avoid hurting girls sensibilities, the word ‘brassiere’ should be euphemized with the implicit one, which is ‘bra’.
To support that explanation, the writer then unpacks the word ‘bra’ in sentence all right, where’s my wonder bra? as follow: Bra: [BREAST]
[FEMALE] [CLOTH] [OBJECT] [PHYSICAL] In sentence a, ‘bra’ is categorized as euphemism. The writer replaces the
word ‘bra’ with the real meaning to differentiate the euphemism and taboo term.
b Tracy: all right, wheres my wonder brassiere?
Sentence b is acceptable, yet it is not a kind of euphemism. The word ‘brassiere’ is vulgar that falls under components like: Brassier: [BREAST]
[FEMALE] [CLOTH] [OBJECT] [PHYSICAL] From that features, the writer finds out that ‘bra’ and ‘brassier’ have similar components, but ‘bra’ has more
implicit sense than ‘brassiere’. To get the meaning relation between bra and brassiere, the writer will
identify semantic components as follow:
Bra Brassiere
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+ Breast
+ +
Female +
+ Cloth
+ +
Object +
+ Physical
+ +
Private +
These words are able to replace each other even though having different sense. ‘Bra’ may stand for brassiere and vice versa. It is because they have
identical components such as [BREAST] [FEMALE] [CLOTH] [PHYSICAL] [OBJECT] [PRIVATE]. ‘Bra’ and ‘brassiere’ share the similar entities so that
‘bra’ is synonymous for ’brassiere’ and ‘brassiere’ is synonymous for ‘bra’. Nevertheless bra is categorized as a euphemism with the consideration that it
is more pleasant, implicit and tactful than ‘brassiere’.
For the semantic change, the word ‘bra’ undergoes no semantic change. It is that there is no change in meaning occurring to these words. It is because
‘bra’ is the short form of ‘brassiere’ and still refers to the female cloth whose function is to cover the female breasts. The other proof is ‘bra’ or ‘brassiere’
share semantic components that are similar in number and lexeme. Those 6 components comprise [CLOTH] [PHYICAL] [BREAST] [OBJECT]
[FEMALE] [PRIVATE]. The proof is clearly shown by the componential analysis in which ‘bra’ and ‘brassiere’ fall under the all components in
common. In this typical case, to get the better, polite, pleasant term, and blur the true meaning, the word brassiere is being short.
6. Abbreviation
