An analysis of semantic shange in euphemistic terms in the script Jennifer's body' movie

ABSTRACT Resmita Siska, An Analysis of Semantic Change in Euphemistic Terms in the Script �Jennifer�s Body� movie. Thesis. Jakarta : English Letters Department. Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, 2010. The aim of this research is to describe the meaning relation and semantic change that happened in euphemistic terms that found in the script �Jennifer�s Body� movie. This meaning relation falls under: synonymy, antonym, hyponymy, and meronymy. While semantic change divided into: semantic broadening, semantic narrowing, amelioration, pejorative, sinestesia, and association. The writer applies descriptive- qualitative method to describe the types of meaning relation and semantic change that happened in euphemistic terms. In the collecting data the writer applies the documentation method in which the �Jennifer�s Body� film scripts are download from the website http://www.imsdb.com/search.php. The writer analyzed 10 types of euphemism that found in the scripts. Data analysis continued by using descriptive method. From all the data analysis taken from film �Jennifer�s Body� the writer found the types of euphemism like circumlocution, clipping, abbreviation, quasi-omission, metonymy, hyperbole, understatement, abstraction, but is not found the rhyming slang, remodeling, acronyms, synecdoche, borrowing, indirectness, mispronunciation, plays on abbreviation, and phonetic alphabet. The euphemistic terms can replace the words assumed by taboo because there is semantic change