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1、ThefeaturesofEnglishEuphemism姓名：学号：专业：英语教育班级：教师：日期：2012年5月25日ThefeaturesofEnglishEuphemismAbstract:Currently,itisknownthateuphemismplaysanimportantroleinpeople’ssocialcommunicationandexistsinalmosteverycultureandsociety.Theaimofthispaperistohelpthelanguagelearnertounderstandeuphemismbetter,Thou
2、ghtanalyzedthefeaturesofEnglishEuphemism,weknowmanywordsmakepeopleembarrassedandunhappy.Inordertoavoidtheoffensivenessandmisunderstandings,peopleusuallyuseeuphemismtoreplacewiththeunpleasantandrudewordsincommunication.Keywords:English，Euphemism，Definition，FeatureOneofthemostimportantwaysforourh
3、umanbeingstocommunicatewithothersislanguage.Languageisanimportantmeansforpeopletomaintaintheirsocialrelationship.However,therearemanythingswhicharesupposedtobeunspeakable.Manywordsalsomakepeopleembarrassedandunhappy.So,inordertoavoidtheoffensivenessandmisunderstandings,peopleusuallyusetheindire
4、ctorpleasantexpressionstoreplacewiththoseunpleasantandrudewordsincommunication.Wecallthateuphemism.Euphemismplaysanimportantroleinpeople’ssocialcommunicationandexistsinalmosteverycultureandsociety.1.TheDefinitionofEuphemismEuphemismisacommonlinguisticphenomenoninallcultures,ittakesanveryimporta
5、ntroleinpeople’sdailycommunication.EuphemismisoriginatedfromtheGreek.Itisprefix“eu”meansgood,pleasant,anditsroot“pheme”meansspeech.Thus,euphemismliterallymeans“tospeakwithgoodwordsorinapleasantmanner”(Silver1990).AccordingtoAllanandBurridge(Burridge1991),thedefinitionofeuphemismis:Aeuphemismisu
6、sedasanalternativetoadispreferredexpression,inordertoavoidpossiblelossofface:eitherone’sownfaceorthroughgoingoffense,thatoftheaudience,orofsomethirdparty.Manypeoplehavedefinedeuphemism.Therearesomedefinitionsofeuphemismbelow:(1)mildorvagueexpressionsubstitutedforaharsherormoredirectone(Pocket19
7、96).(2)thesubstitutionofamild,indirect,orvagueexpressionforonethoughttobeoffensive,harshorblunt(Webste1997).(3)theuseofamorepleasant,lessdirectnameforsomethingthoughttobeunpleasant.(Group1988).(4)Aeuphemismisapolite,pleasant,orneu
