Revisiting euphemisation strategies for English to Indonesian subtitle context

SF. Luthfie Arguby Purnomo (English Letters Department, Cultures and Languages Faculty, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Surakarta)
Ikke Dewi Pratama (English Language Education Department, Cultures and Languages Faculty, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Surakarta)
Lilik Untari (English Letters Department, Cultures and Languages Faculty, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Surakarta)
SF. Lukfianka Sanjaya Purnama (English Letters Department, Cultures and Languages Faculty, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Surakarta)
Novianni Anggraini (English Language Education Department, Cultures and Languages Faculty, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Surakarta)

Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL)
Vol 10 No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020

Character equivalence and offensive word rank in subtitling context are understudied on the previous studies on euphemisation strategies. The exclusion of these two concerns leaves the prior constructed euphemisation strategies unable to explain how shifts on narrative identity might occur and how taboo words are functionally negotiated. In addressing this issue, the study investigates the relationship between offensive word levels with character equivalence and narrative identity,