CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
A. Data Description
In this chapter, the writer analyzes the data is taken from movie scripts which titled Jennifer’s Body. The writer chose the movie because they related to teenager’s
life and there is a friendship relation so that the actors actresses try to use the euphemistic term in order to keep someone’s sensibility or avoid losing somebody’s
face. The euphemistic terms then categorized into types of euphemism which classified into the euphemistic application. After that, the writer goes to the next steps
by analyzing the meaning relation and the semantic change the euphemistic terms undergo.
Base on the types of euphemism, the writer found that there are no euphemistic terms in classification of rhyming slang, remodeling, acronyms, synecdoche,
borrowing, indirectness, mispronunciation, plays on abbreviation, and phonetic alphabet as described at the following table:
Table 1 The Table of the Types of Euphemism that Found in Scripts of Jennifer’s Body movie
No Utterances
Types of Euphemism
Situation of utterance : Needy wiggles her jeans a
bit lower, exposing her childishly round tummy. She walks out of the bathroom into her bedroom, a
frilly pink hell complete with canopy bed. Neddy’s boy friend Chip is sitting on the bed, looking lost in
all that pink. He raises an eyebrow at Needys abdomen.
Data 1
The participant
: Needy.
Speaker » Chip : I can see, like, your womb.
Needy sighs and hoists up her pants Metaphor
Data 2
Situation of utterance : Needy enters to Jennifer’s
bad room in way plunge through the window of Jennifer’s bad room. Before the utterance is uttered
by Needy, there is quarrel between Needy and Jennifer. Needy is very angry because Jennifer have
killed her boy friend. Needy came to Jennifer’s bedroom to revenge for her death boyfriend. Needy
pull a box cutter out of her waistband and flick it open like a switchblade to Jennifer.
Participan
t : Jennifer Needy pulls a box cutter out of her waistband and
flicks it open like a switchblade Speaker »
Needy: know what this is for? Cutting boxes
Circumlocution
Data 3
Situation of Utterance: Needy stands in front of a
full-length mirror, wearing a big `80s-style magenta prom dress. It sags on her flat chest and looks
ridiculous. Her mother Tony was curling her hear and making up her face. It all was done by her
mother because she wanted to see Needy as a beautiful and fashionable girl to go to the party.
Needy who is as simple girl or not as modish girl felt shocked when her mother made her hair like
Hooker Helmet. Although her mother said that she looked beautiful but Needy said she looked like
pork stupid. Participant : Toni Needy’s mother
Tony takes a section of Needys hair and wraps it
around the curling iron. Smoke rises. Needy: What are you doing to my hair?
Tony : Hooker helmet. Speaker »
Needy: Aw, jeez Mom
Clippings
Data 4
Situation of Utterance: Mr. Wroblewski stands
solemnly in front of the class, his mechanical hand tensing and releasing nervously. Mr. Wrolewski
wants to give an announcement to his students. Needy and the rest of the class fidget. There was
Jenifer sat beside Needy and Jennifer looked haggard, thin, and cranky.
Participant
: Jennifer
Needy smooth her own hair self-consciously. Speaker »
Needy: Are you PMS-ing or something?
Abbreviations
Data 5
Situation of Utterance: Needy is seated at the
kitchen table. She accidentally dropps the remains of her sandwich on the floor, where the ferret
quickly pillaged it. Needys Mom, Antonia Toni Lesnicki, has quietly enters the kitchen in her
pajamas. She is pale and sweaty, as if shes been spooked. Then Tony told to her daughter that she
Toni got nightmare last night. In Toni’s night mare, there were some bad people tried to kill and
nail Tony to a tree and they also wanted to kill Needy. But in the conversation between Tony and
Needy, Tony didn’t said the word “kill” directly because she worried that Needy would be hurt or
felt something like frightened. Participant : Needy
Speaker »
Tony: They were trying to get to you
too, but I wouldn’t let ‘em..
Quasi- Omission
Data 6
Situation of utterance : Its a busy night and the bar
is teeming with locals. A bartender sells a case of beer to a customer and passes it over the bar. Needy
and Jennifer enter the bar. Every guy in the joint stares at Jennifer, who snaps her minor wristband
distastefully. Roman Duda saunters up to Jennifer, swigging a bottle of beer. He snatches the pack of
cigarettes away from her. There was some conversation between Roman and Jennifer, and
finally Jennifer paws Romans crotch discreetly, then Roman said the utterance to Jennifer as a
respond.
Full-Omission
Participant : Jennifer
Jennifer paws Romans crotch discreetly Speaker »
Roman : Not here, babe
Data 7
Situation of Utterance : Needy wiggled her jeans a
bit lower, exposing her childishly round tummy. She walked out of the bathroom into her bedroom, a
frilly pink hell complete with canopy bed. Chip Dove was sitting on the bed, looking lost in all that
pink. He raised an eyebrow at Needys abdomen. Chip was Needy’s boy friend.
Participant
: Needy
Speaker » Chip: Those jeans are hella low. I can
almost see your front butt
Metonymy
Data 8
Situation of utterance : Its a busy night and the bar
is teeming with locals. A bartender sells a case of beer to a customer and passes it over the bar. Needy
and Jennifer enter the bar. Every guy in the joint stares at Jennifer, who snaps her minor wristband
distastefully. Roman Duda saunters up to Jennifer, swigging a bottle of beer. He snatches the pack of
cigarettes away from her. There was some conversation between Roman and Jennifer, and
finally Jennifer paws Romans crotch discreetly, then Roman said the utterance to Jennifer as a
respond. Participant :
Jennifer Jennifer paws Romans crotch discreetly
Speaker » Roman : Not here, babe
Hyperbole
Data 9
Situation of utterance : It was gray, overcast day
and the wind whistles through the trees. Jonas was standing in the football’s field, it is a good distance
from the school. Jonas was very sad because his best friends Craig was pass away. Then, Jennifer
come to Jonas and tried to entertain him. The participant
: Jennifer Understatement
Jonass lip trembles as he unsuccessfully fights back tears. Jennifer cuddles closer to him.
Speaker » Jonas: I just can’t believe he’s gone.
Data 10
Situation of utterance: A hysterical scream
pierced the twilight. The sun has begun to set. An ambulance and four police cars have pulled up near
the woods, which were cordoned off with yellow police tape. Near the woods, Jonas’s Parent was
crying because they didn’t suppose that their son was died. Jonas’s mother screamed and begun
beating the ground with her fists. A stretcher was being loaded into the ambulance. Officer Warzak
exits one of the police cruisers. She rushed to comfort Jonass bereaved mother.
The Participant:
Jonas’ parent.
Speaker » Officer Warzak: We will get the man
that did this to your son.
Abstraction
B. Data Analysis