DOWNTONERS IN JOURNALISTIC ARTICLES
The paper discusses the exploitation of euphemistic expressions in printed media to soften words or phrases considered to be vulgar or profane or negative. Several texts from The Jakarta Post were taken as the data source and all expressions in such texts downtoning the other negative ones were take...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Muhammadiyah University Press
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/KLS/article/view/4391 |