A Comparative Study of English Euphemism and Chinese Euphemism 英语专业硕士毕业论文

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1、AComparativeStudyofEnglishEuphemismandChineseEuphemism  CONTENTSAbstractAcknowledgementsI.Introduction……….………………………………………………………..…..1II.ReviewofLiterature………………….………………………………………42.1DefinitionofEuphemism…………………………….………………....…42.2ClassificationofEuphemism………………………………

2、…………..…72.2.1PositiveEuphemismandNegativeEuphemism…………….….….72.2.2ConsciousEuphemismandUnconsciousEuphemism………..…...92.2.3OtherClassificationsofEuphemism…….……………………..…10III.Language,Culture,TabooandEuphemism…………………………...….113.1LanguageandEuphemism……………………………………………..

3、.113.2CultureandEuphemism…….…………………………………….…….123.3TabooandEuphemism…………………………………………..……...13IV.ComparisonBetweenChineseandEnglishEuphemisms.................…….154.1IntermsofFormation………….......……………………………………154.1.1PhoneticDevice..…...……………………………….…………..154.1.2Lexic

4、alDevice..……...…………………………….……………164.1.3RhetoricalDevice…………………………………..……………214.1.4GrammaticalDevice……………...………………...……………224.2IntermsofRangeofUse……..……………….……….……………….244.3IntermsofCulture….…………..………………………..……………..264.3.1DifferentReligions..…………………………....………..………264

5、.3.2DifferentPractices..…………………………….....…..…………294.3.3DifferentConnotationsofOld….……...………..……………….30V.CommunicativeFunctionsofEuphemism………..………………………..335.1AvoidingTaboo………..………………………...………...……………..335.2ShowingPoliteness………………………………….………………...…355.3ConcealingTruth

6、………………………..………………………………38VI.TranslatingofEnglishandChineseEuphemisms……………..…....……41VII.Conclusion………………………………………….………….…..……….45Bibliography……………………………………………………….……………47   ABSTRACTEuphemismsaremild,agreeable,orroundaboutwordsusedinplaceofcoarse,painful,oroffensiveo

7、nes.ThetermcomesfromtheGreek，eumeaning“well”or“soundinggood”andphememeaning“speech”.Euphemismliterallymeansgoodorpleasantspeech.Asanindispensableandnaturalpartoflanguage,euphemismhasbeenarousingwideinterest.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenon

8、fromtheperspectivesofrhetoric,semantics,pragmaticsandsociolinguists.Asaresult,achievementsinthestudyofeuphemismhavebeenconspicuous.Thus,on