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1、AnAnalysisofEnglishandChineseLinguisticTaboo1IntroductionOnsocialcontacts,especiallyinthecross-culturalcommunications,youwilloftenmeetasensitiveissuewhichistaboo.Taboorestraintsourlanguageandbehaviorsasaninvisiblediscipline,andmakesusdarenottotransgresstheboundsintheforbiddenground.Tabooi
2、salmosteverywhere,andlinguistictabooisanimportantpartofthesocialtaboos.Inanykindofcultureandanysociety,therearelinguistictaboos,andinEnglishandAmericansocietythereisnaturallynoexception.Inthesameculture,becauseofthedifferenceofregions,tabooshavesomethingincommonandalsosomedifferences.Indi
3、fferentcultures,thetaboodifferenceswillbegreater.Becauseofthis,taboosetsabarrierinourcommunication,especiallyinthecross-culturalcommunication,whichmakespeoplepayattentiontoit,toavoidit,tomakesurethatthecommunicationcanbewell.Actually,theChinesepeople,sinceancienttimes,havepaidgreatattenti
4、ontothisproblem.TheBookofRighthasexplicitlyspecifiedtheetiquettenormof"WheninRome,doasRomansdo.”Andwiththeevolutionofhistory,peopleevenputsomeimportantforbiddenintotheregulationinthepublictoattractattention.English-speakingpeoplealsofocusontabooverymuch.Indailycommunication,ifanyonewhovio
5、latesthetaboo,onemayexpressunhappiness,andthemoreseriouscaseisthatitmaymakeoneturnhostileandevendon'tbreakoff.Therefore,wecanseethat,knowingabouttaboocandowellfortheinternationalrelations.2TheevolutionoflinguistictabooLinguistictaboooriginallycamefromtheword“taboo”.“Taboo”cameintoexistenc
6、eisbecausethatatthattimehumanbeingsdidn'tunderstand,orcouldn’tunderstandanaturalphenomenonandtheessenceofnature.Intheeighteenthcentury,anEnglishnavigatorcalledJamesCooksailedtoTongaArchipelagoesintheSouthPacificOcean.Hefoundtherearemanystrangesocialphenomenaamongtheresidents,somecertainth
7、ingscouldbeusedbytheupperclasslikegod,monk,thekingandthechief,andnotallowtheordinarypeopletouse;Orcouldonlybeusedforspecificpurposes,andwasnotallowedforthegeneralpurposes;Ordidn'tallowsomesocialgrouporsomepeoplesuchaswomentouse,etc.Theresidentscalledthis“taboo”.Then