@thesis{thesis,
		author={Irfan Joelendra  Purbadi},
		title ={DOUBLESPEAK BY EUPHEMISM IN MIKE PENCE
INTERVIEW AT “POLITICO PLAYBOOK LIVE”},
		year={2021},
		url={http://repository.unsada.ac.id/3092/},
		abstract={Doublespeak is language that pretends to communicate that is carefully constructed
to make what is said and reality incompatible. Politico is a United States media
organization that focuses on United States domestic politics and have audience in
the moderate side of political spectrum who held an interview for Vice President
Mike R. Pence under the series "Playbook Live." This research was conducted to
identify utterances that contain the euphemism kind of doublespeak and to expose
how those utterances are able to sway thought of other people using doublespeak
theory of Lutz (1991) and further analyzed with types of euphemism by upgrades,
downgrades, deception and obfuscation theory of Allan (2012) which are:
circumlocution, understatement and overstatement. Descriptive qualitative method
is used in this research. The result of this research founded that there are twenty
eight utterances containing the euphemism kind of doublespeak constructed using
circumlocution (nine occurrences), understatement (nine occurrences) and
overstatement (ten occurrences).}
		}