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1、EuphemismandItsPragmaticFunctions[Abstract]EuphemismisoneofthemostimportantcomponentsinEnglish.Itplaysasignificantroleincommunication.ManypeopleabroadsuchasLeech,Rawson,etchavedoneresearchonit.However,thepragmaticfunctionofeuphemismisseldomincluded.Sothispap
2、ermainlydiscussesthepragmaticfunctionsofeuphemism.Thepurposeofthispaperistoprovetheconnectionbetweeneuphemismsandtohinttheimportantofeuphemismincommunicationanditspragmaticfunctions.[Keywords]Euphemism,Pragmaticfunctions.I.IntroductionBritishauthorGeorgeBlun
3、tfirstlycreatedtheword“euphemism”atthebeginningof1530s.EuphemismoriginallycomesfromtheGreek.Eumeans“good”,phememeans“speech”or“saying”,andthusthewordmeansliterary“tospeakgoodwordsorinapleasantmanner.”TheMerriamWebsterDictionarydefineseuphemismas“thesubstitut
4、ionofamildorpleasantexpressionforoneoffensiveorunpleasant.”TheLongmanandictionaryofcontemporarydefinesitas“(anexampleof)theuseofaplaster,lessdirectnameforsomethingthoughttobeunpleasant.”Neananexplained“substitutionanoffensiveorpleasanttermforamoreexplicitoff
5、ensiveone,therebyveneeringthetruthbyusingkindwords.”Neananmainlyconcludedthenatureandcharacteristicofeuphemism.Sometimesitisunnecessarytocallaspadeaspaderatherthanusingeuphemism-alinguisticfigleaftosaveone’sface.Nomatterwhatdefinitioneuphemismisgiven,itissom
6、ethinggood.Itisacommonphenomenonoflanguage.Itiswidelyusedbypeopleofallkindsofculturalbackground.Itisalsoareflectionofsocio-culturedpsychology,asociety’sbeliefs,valueandconventions.Nodoubt,euphemismisawidelyandfrequentlyusedfigureofspeech.Asahotresearchissuei
7、nthefieldoflinguistics,euphemismhasbeenexaminedanddiscussedbyscholarssuchasMunches(1936),Fromkin(1988),Rawson(1981),Leech(1985)etc.Theirstudieshavebeenmainlyconfinedwithtwoareas:rhetoricsemanticsanddictionarycompiling.Butthepragmaticfunctionsofeuphemismarese
8、ldomdiscussed.Nowadays,linguisticresearchersinChinabegintostepintothefieldofpragmatics,buttheconnectionbetweeneuphemismsandpragmaticsisseldomreferredto.So,thispapermainlydiscussestherelationship
