omitting the unlucky or sensitive matter. Although the word ‘em’ has no clear meaning, but it is surely acceptable to purify the word ‘kill’.
The euphemism ‘em’ can be considered as spoken counterpart like said monosyllable. It can become like that because the speaker may has no alternative idea
to cover the distasteful term. Nevertheless, the new meaning ‘em’ applies Semantic broadening. It can be proved by the semantic component of the words. The earlier
meaning of ‘em’ falls under no feature, while the new meaning refers to lethal act that consist of 5 [+] features. They are [ACTIVITY] [DONE BY PEOPLE] [LETHAL
ACT] and [LEAVE OUT HUMAN LIFE]. Therefore, it is regarded broader in meaning since the previous meaning is more general than the earlier one.
6. Full Omission
Data example :
a Roman : Not here, babe
The datum is derived from ‘Jennifer body’ scripts movie. It is uttered by Roman to Jennifer in the club when Jennifer pawed Roman’s crotch discreetly.
In that utterance, euphemism comes from the word ‘not here’. ‘Not here’ refines the taboo words ‘have sex’. It is strongly taboo to mention. To cover the real meaning
and to neutralize the taboo word of ‘have sexual intercourse’, the speaker changed the taboo term to the euphemistic term, and the word is ‘not here’.
Some reasons evoke ‘having sex’ be high taboo are as follows: 1. Many couple supposed that sexual intercourse is private matters so that
it should be for the record of only both parties.
2. Having sex is an activity centering and leading copolation. 3. It is sexual activity involving both female and male genitals
Thus, ‘have sex’ is neutralized with the word ‘not here’ in this phrase. The speaker said like that in order to keep someone’s feeling or avoid losing interlocutor’s
face and attracting someone’s sensibility. The word ‘not here’ even gets trough euphemistic of full- omission because the
speaker does not mention the complete sentence. Speaker omit the dispreferred term. Full-omission and quasi-omission are often difficult to be differentiated but it can be
understood that full-omission is not shown any kind of spoken counterparts to dashes or thing like er-mm, or mhm.
To back up the above explanation, the writer then unpacks the word “not here” into smaller features like:
Not here: [PHYSICAL] [PLACE] From these components, not here refers to physical place. Components will be
different, if the word ‘not here’ is added with the omitting utterance. c Roman : Not here to have sex, babe
Sentence b is acceptable. ‘Have sex’ is what is being hided because it is taboo term. Therefore, sentence b is not euphemism expression because the real meaning is
shown explicitly. ‘Having sex’ has components as follow: Have sex: [PHYSICAL] [ACTIVITY] [COITUS] [PEOPLE].
To get meaning relation between ‘no here’ and ‘having sex’, the writer will identify the semantic components as follow:
Not here Having sex
+ Physical
+ -
Activity +
+ Place
+ -
Coitus +
- People
+ From above description, the writer finds out that ‘not here’ and ‘have sex’ only
has a component in common, it is [PHYSICAL]. If ‘not here’ refers to physical place, so ‘have sex’ will refer to physical activity. In sentence not here, babe, ‘not here’
neutralized the taboo terms by omitting “having sex”. “Not here” may replace “having sex” because it is conversation between couple Roman and Jennifer in the club
supported the act which is done by Jennifer that pawed Roman’s crotch discreetly. Thus, the experience let people refer “not here” to “have sex”.
Base on the opposite feature and above explanation, the writer summarizes that there is no exact meaning relation between ‘not here’ and “having sex”. They have
only two identical feature and contrast in [ACTIVITY] [COITUS] [PEOPLE] features. The word ‘not here’ replaces ‘have sex’, it undergoes semantic broadening in
which the meaning change is regarded broader than the previous one. ‘Not here’ describes the physical place especially here base on the setting where the utterance is
uttered is club of place that is crowded, noisy, and full music. The noise atmosphere and the area which full music let us do enjoy the music together with many people.
While, ‘having sex’ is physical activity done by couple who are in love. Thus the references of ‘not here’ changes the broader as well. The other evidence is the number
of semantic components, the word ‘not here’ has 2 [+] features and ‘having sex’ has 5 [+] features.
7. Metonymy
