a. Context 1 Characters
: John J and Mary M 2 Setting
: In a French restaurant 3 Context of situation: John is about to propose to Mary and
before he goes to the main topic, John talks about what
happened to him in the last two years before meeting Mary. Then, he talks about Sherlock’s death. Although it has been
two years since Sherlock’s death, it still hurts him to talk about his death. Moreover, death is not really a good topic to
pick when proposing to a woman. Therefore, he euphemi
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es his words into haven’t been easy, so that Mary does not
worry about him when he is mentioning what he’s going
through in the last two years.
b. Euphemism and Meaning The type of this euphemism is indirection, for indirection is
“mentioning one aspect of the subject, a circumstance involving it, a related subject, or even by saying what it is not.”
2
It means that we can euphemi
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e a word by saying the negative form of the opposite word. The phrase haven’t been easy is a euphemism for the word
‘hard’, or ‘difficult’, or any antonym of the word ‘easy’.
The meaning of this euphemism is classified as affective meaning
because it reflects John’s feeling about the topic Sherlock’s death
2
Hugh Rawson, op.cit., 1981, p. 9
and all the hardship that he has been through in the last two years, and it also reflects his attitude towards Mary not wanting Mary to
worry about him.
3. Playing hide and seek Episode 01
J: “Did they know too? Hmm? That you spent the last two years
playing hide and seek?”
S: “Maybe.” J: “Ah, so thats why they werent at the funeral”
a. Context 1 Characters
: John J and Sherlock S 2 Setting
: In Sherlock’s room after Sherlock
revealing his fake death, he rents Mrs. Hudson upper room
again while John lives with Mary 3 Context of situation : When visiting Sherlock, John see
Sherlock’s parents get out of his room, and suddenly remembers about Sherlock’s fake death there were
approximately 25 people knew about this, and not being told about this in the last two years really angers John. Then,
John asks Sherlock, angrily, whether his parents know that
he didn’t really die in the last two years.
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