EUPHEMISM ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL ISSUES IN THE JAKARTA POST ONLINE NEWSPAPER (A Library Research)

This research entitled “Euphemism Analysis of Educational Issues in the Jakarta Post Online Newspaper”. The background of this research there were many people who did not know about euphemism in education, especially in educational learning and did not understand the function of euphemism. The researcher chooses the Jakarta post online newspaper because the Jakarta Post is the first local daily newspaper presenting news in a foreign language, which is the English language and a popular newspaper in Indonesia. The problems this study are: what types of euphemism are found in the Jakarta post online newspaper related to the educational issues and what the function of euphemism are found in the Jakarta post online newspaper related to educational issues. The purposes of this research were: to explain what types of euphemism are found in the Jakarta post online newspaper related to the educational issues and to describe what function of euphemism is found in the Jakarta Post online newspaper related to the educational issues. In this research the researcher used descriptive qualitative method by library research. In analyzing the data, researcher used analysis interactive model. In this model there are three components techniques of analysis data they are: data reduction, data display and data verification. There were 14 articles which published in May to December 2020 and January 2021. Based on analysis, the writer found five types of English Euphemism in the educational issues in the Jakarta post online newspaper, there are: acronym, circumlocution, idiom, hyperbole and litotes (understatement). And three function of English euphemism were found out in it they are: to inform (conveys new information), evaluates (conveys writer’s opinion or attitude), modalism (conveys writer’s attitude toward the truth-value of his/her utterance or writing).