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
1. Metaphor.
Data example: a Chip: I can see like your womb
This sentence was uttered by Chip to Neddy. Chip is Needy’s boy friend. The utterance above happened in Needy’s bed room when Chip saw Needy wiggled her
jeans a bit lower. Chip also saw Needy exposing her round tummy with her jeans, then she said that above utterance as a respond form.
The word ‘womb’ is euphemism for ‘cunt’. Cunt is considered as taboo in the connection of bodily effluvia. It is because in several reasons such as:
1. Cunt as sexual object and it disgraceful if it is mentioned directly.
2. Cunt locates at the lower abdomen that is so private. 3. Cunt connotes a sexually attractive of woman.
4. Cunt principally means unpleasant and shameful. Base on the several reasons above, the speaker tends not to mention the taboo
word ‘cunt’ but change it to euphemistic term ‘womb’. It is done to keep the listener’s sensibility, preventing people or partner from losing face.
The exchange of taboo term ‘cunt’ to ‘euphemistic term ‘womb’, it is applies a kind of euphemistic metaphor. It is because metaphor is a figure of speech concisely
expressed by comparing two things, saying that one is the other or an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in
common. The lexical meaning of ‘womb’ is the organ in woman and female animal in which babies develop before they are born. Meanwhile, the literal meaning goes to
‘cunt or vagina’ because ‘womb’ may not be able to be seen directly although the woman used a bit lower jeans. Hence, ‘womb’ become the figurative form for ‘cunt or
vagina’.
To support that utterance: I can see like your womb includes euphemism, the
writer break down the term ‘womb’ as follow: Womb: [BODY’S ORGAN] [IN ABDOMEN] [FEMALE] [UTERUS] [ORGAN
USED TO DEVELOP BABY]. Here, the word ‘womb’ has no sensitive feature, the components of ‘womb’ will be
different, if ‘womb’ is replaced with the intended term.
b Chip: I can see like your cunt.
Sentence b is acceptable, but the sentence does not euphemism expression. It is because the meaning of the utterance is shown explicitly. We can catch the reference
directly. Hence, the word ‘cunt’ be changed to euphemistic term ‘womb’ because the word ‘womb’ sounds more polite, pleasant, and prudent by blurring the real intention
referring to somebody else’s private part. While the word ‘cunt’ has semantic components like:
Cunt: [BODY ORGAN] [PRIVATE PLACE] [FEMALE] [OUTER SEXUAL ORGANS] [EXCREMENT] [CONTEMPTOUS].
For further information, the writer will identify the meaning relation by using the semantic components of both words:
Womb Cunt
+ Body’s Organ
+ +
Female +
- Private Part
+ +
Uterus -
+ In Abdomen
- -
Outer sexual organ +
- Excrement
+ -
Contemptuous +
In description of above semantic component, the writer finds out some components in common such as [BODY’S ORGAN] and [FEMALE]. These similar
components surely allow them replace each other ‘cunt’ can be replace by ‘womb’ especially in the sentence: I can see like your womb
The proofs also appear in the semantic components. The word ‘womb’ that is judged nicer because it has no sensitive feature, while the word ‘cunt’ comprises
sensitive feature, they are [OUTER SEXUAL ORGANS] [EXCREMENT] and
[CONTEMPTOUS]. Hence, people used term ‘womb’ to avoid a vulgar one and to keep somebody’s sensibility.
Then, the writer goes to analyze the meaning relation of both word ‘womb’ and ‘cunt’. According the semantic components, the writer supposes that these words
apply meronymy relation. It is relation which has hierarchical concept. The word ‘womb’ and ‘cunt’ are included female body’s organ in which they share with it the
semantic component [BODY’S ORGAN] and [FEMALE]. ‘Womb’ is body’s organ located in abdomen woman or female animals. It has also [FEMALE] feature because
‘womb’ is just available in female and it is impossible available in male. Cunt is also body’s organ but it located in above abdomen. Cunt has [FEMALE] features because
the reason is same with womb, cunt just exists in female and it may not available in male.
Hence, the term ‘womb’ and ‘cunt’ have meronymy relation. It is describe as follow: Body’s Organ
Cunt Womb
It support by Saeed theory that pointed out meronymy is a concept used to explain a part – whole relationship between lexical items. To differentiate it from
another hierarchical concept, meronymy can be identified by using “part of relationship. For instance: B is part of A, and A has B. in this study, cunt and womb is
part of body’s organ, and body’s organ has womb and cunt. The word ‘womb’ as euphemism used to mean body’s organ in which babies
develop before they are born. It is available in abdomen of female. While, in the
sentence I can see like your womb, ‘womb’ refers to cunt because in literally cunt can be seen from outside. As a private part, people change it to the polite term, that is
womb. The word ‘womb’ here undergoes semantic broadening in which the new
meaning gets broader than the previous one. The proof is shown in the number of semantic component of both words. Womb jus has 4 [+] features, while ‘cunt’ has 6
[+] features. Secondly, ‘womb’ applies semantic change in pejorative process in which the
new meaning is regarded more negative than the previous one. The word ‘womb’ is only used to mean the organ in woman and female animal in which babies develop
before they are born. Meanwhile, ‘cunt’ is outer sexual organ referring to genitals having function to copulate. In this sentence, the new meaning ‘womb’ is cunt as outer
sexual organ and genitals of human. It is then clear that the new meaning ‘womb’ gets worse than earlier one.
2. Circumlocution
