Euphemisms and oral communication

Abstract

Euphemisms are those words or phrases that society uses in their oral communication process to avoid taboo conversations. The present research has the main aim to determine the relationship between euphemisms and the student’s oral communication in the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Language Program at the Technical University of Ambato. It was focused on the descriptive method where a validated survey was created in order to apply it to 291 participants of the program. The survey had 21 questions related to the use of the formation of euphemisms and the elements of oral communication. Once the survey was created, the Cronbach Alpha was applied to see the level of reliability of the instrument and a group of 3 experts validated it from their knowledge. Then, the researcher applied the survey to 8 levels of the program, each participant answered it in compliance with their experience in English conversation, and through the chisquare, it was shown that the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Finally, when the results were analyzed, the conclusion was that there is a positive relationship between euphemisms and the student’s oral communication process.