Euphemism used in political articles in reuters. Com

The Previous Studies

These previous studies are related to the topic. The first research was “Political Euphemism In News Media”, written by Rusman (2002). He studied the associative meaning in Indonesia and America English vocabulary. He focused on pragmatic, lexical perspective and discussed the uses and meanings of euphemism in term of denials, refusal, etc.
Abidin (2003) also conducted the research related to euphemism. He wrote “Euphemistic Expression Used in Kompas During World Cup 2002. The third research was “A Study on Euphemism Used in the Headlines of Kompas Newspaper”, written by Ermayani (2003). Another research which is also related to euphemism was done by Mazidah (2007), she wrote “A Study on Euphemism Used In Newsweek Magazine”. The similarities with previous research is study about types, styles and function of euphemism that proposed by Allan and Burridge. In addition, the difference is the researcher uses media electronic to collect the data.
Studying the previous studies above, the researcher would like to discuss about euphemism used in political article in reuters.com. Those previous studies have relationship with this topic. So the researcher uses the as the source or the comparison of her study.

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter presents the research methodology and the procedures designed to answer the research question. The discussion covers: the research design, data sources, data collection, data analysis, research instrument and triangulation.

1. Research Design

In this research the researcher observes euphemism used in the political articles in reuters.com. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative research in this research, because the data of this study are in the form of utterances or words, which were not statistically analyzed. As stated by Newman (in Mazidah, 2006) that qualitative data tends to be in the form of words and sentences than numbers. In relation to the design of this study, Ary (1979) states that descriptive research was designed to obtain information concerning the current status phenomena. They are directed toward determining the nature of situation, as existed at the time of study.
This research described the types, the styles and the function of euphemism used in political article in Reuters .com.

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