DOUBLESPEAK BY EUPHEMISM IN MIKE PENCE
INTERVIEW AT “POLITICO PLAYBOOK LIVEâ€
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Institusion
Universitas Darma Persada
Author
Irfan Joelendra, Purbadi
Subject
158.3 Counseling and Interviewing/Psikologi Konseling, Penyuluhan, Pemberian Nasehat dan Wawancara
Datestamp
2022-06-20 01:42:04
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).
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).
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