https://ejournal.uinsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/jopr <p><img style="width: 25%; float: left; margin-right: 20px; border-radius: 6px; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="https://ejournal.uinsalatiga.ac.id/public/journals/17/cover_issue_110_en_US.png" alt="cover image" /></p> <p><a href="https://ejournal.uinsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/jopr/index" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <strong>Journal of Pragmatics Research (JoPR)</strong> </a>, E-ISSN: <a href="https://issn.brin.go.id/terbit/detail/1547048995" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2656-8020</a>, is published by <a title="Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Salatiga" href="https://www.uinsalatiga.ac.id" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Salatiga </a>, Indonesia.</p> <p>It is a <strong>scientific forum published every February, July, and October</strong>, dedicated to developing and disseminating scholarly theories and research on <strong>Pragmatics, Pragma-linguistics, and Socio-pragmatics</strong> within the Indonesian socio-cultural and political context. <strong>Journal of Pragmatics Research</strong> serves as a <em>forum for discussing the local Indonesian perspectives of language use, pragmatics, and linguistics</em>. It seeks to bring these local insights to a wider international readership — <strong>from local to global</strong>. While grounded in the Indonesian experience, the journal also welcomes comparative and theoretical studies that connect local contexts to global discussions in cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, anthropology, and communication studies.</p> <p>Authors should submit manuscripts written <strong>only in English</strong>. This journal has been accredited by the <strong>Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (Kemdikbudristek)</strong> and indexed in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ctThnGlucBhL-UtCpYN004JE_6aqxked/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SINTA 3</a> since 2024. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://issn.brin.go.id/terbit/detail/1547048995" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <img style="margin: 5px;" src="https://sciencescholar.us/journal/public/site/images/acahya/issn.png" alt="ISSN" width="150" /> </a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <img style="margin: 5px;" src="https://sciencescholar.us/journal/public/site/images/acahya/open.png" alt="Open Access" width="150" /> </a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <img style="margin: 5px;" src="https://journal.uir.ac.id/public/site/images/novri/cc-by-sa.png" alt="Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0" width="150" /> </a></div> UIN Salatiga en-US Journal of Pragmatics Research 2656-8020 <h2><strong style="font-size: 0.875rem;">License and Copyright Agreement</strong></h2> <div id="content"> <p>In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:</p> <ul> <li>They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.</li> <li>The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal.</li> <li>That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,</li> <li>That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.</li> <li>They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.</li> <li>They agree to the following license and copyright agreement.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Copyright</strong><br />Authors who publish with JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS RESEARCH agree to the following terms:</p> <ol> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. </li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.</li> </ol> <p> </p> </div> https://ejournal.uinsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/jopr/article/view/4858 <p>This paper investigates the Marriage Conflict Resolution (MCR) discourse among Dholuo speakers, which is full of taboo words, particularly those with sexual connotations and other obscenities. The purpose is to examine the use of metaphorical euphemisms by interlocutors to enhance the comprehension of ideas and to politely avoid taboos for culturally acceptable communicative purposes. The study employs a cognitive linguistics approach to analyze these metaphorical euphemisms. Using a descriptive research design, data are collected through Key Informant Interviews and a digital corpus from the Dholuo marriage conflict resolution program Dak Man Gi Ndhadhu on Radio Nam Lolwe, a vernacular station for Dholuo speakers broadcasting in Kisumu County, Kenya. The Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU) is employed to interrogate whether the expressions and lexical items identified are metaphorical. The items are then transcribed and translated into English.The study findings show that MCR metaphorical euphemisms are conceptualized through the interlocutors’ experiences, such as actions, organisms, food, body parts, journeys, objects, human beings, and nature. The findings indicate that Dholuo speakers effectively apply their understanding of these concepts to enhance their comprehension of marital issues. The study focuses solely on the cognitive-linguistic processes underlying metaphorical euphemism and not on gender-based perspectives. The study concludes that Dholuo speakers conceptualize MCR issues through metaphorical euphemisms to avoid taboo language.</p> Felix Owino Benard Mudogo Gervasio Miriti Copyright (c) 2026 Benard Mudogo, Owino, Miriti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2025-11-03 2025-11-03 8 1 1 21 10.18326/jopr.v8i1.1-21