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[Abstract]Theword“euphemism”comesfromtheGreek,eu--means“good”,and–pheme-,“speech”or“saying”,andtogetheritmeansliterally“tospeakwithgoodwordsorinapleasantmanner”.Euphemism,asaculturalphenomenonaswellasalinguisticconcept,hasattractedpeople’sattentionforalongtime.Ithaslongbeenatopic
2、ofmuchinterest.Generallyspeaking,peoplewouldusemoreeuphemismsincommunicatingwiththeoppositesex;womenwouldusemorethanmenwould;olderpeoplewouldusemorethanyoungergenerations.Peoplewouldmoreuseeuphemismsin”power”relationsthanincloserelations.Peoplewithhighereducationwouldusemoreeuphemisms.Theabove
3、factors:age,sex,socialstatus,education,etc.donotworkseparately.Incommunicating,theyareinterlacedwitheachotherandguideourchoiceofeuphemisms.whethertouseeuphemismsortaboowordsalsodepends,toalargeextent,ontheattitudesofparticipantsandthepurposeofconversations.Thearticle
consistsofsixparts.Partone
4、explainswhatthemeaningofeuphemismis.ParttwoissayingthecooperativePrincipleinbriefly.cooperativePrinciple,thecornerstonetheoryofpragmatics,isoneofthemainprinciplesthatguidepeople’scommunication.ThecooperativePrincipleanditsmaximscanexplainwhattheliteralmeaningisanditsrealintentionincommunicatio
5、nandensurethatinanexchangeofconversation.Partthreepresents,theformationeuphemism,namely,formalinnovation,semanticinnovation,rhetoricaldevices,andgrammaticalways.Partfourdiscussesthecommunicativefunctionofeuphemismissubstitution,politeness,disguise,defense,etc.Partfiveservesasthemainbodyofthisa
6、rticle.Generallyspeaking,euphemismsviolatetheQuality,QuantityandmannermaximofthecPduetodifferentreasonslikesubstitution,disguiseetc.AndbasicallyeuphemismsobservetheRelationmaxim.Fromtheanalysis,itcanbealsofoundthatsometimesaneuphemismcanberegardedasviolationoftwomaximsofthecPatthesametime.Part
7、sixconcludesthewholearticle.
[keywords]cooperativePrinciple;Euphemism;communicativefunction
【摘要】委婉语一词起源于希腊语。Eu意思是“好的”，pheme意思是“话语”，因此字面上的意思是说好听的话或用礼貌的方式说话。委婉语是一个语言学概念，同时也是一种文化现象，长久以来一直受到人们的关注。总体上讲人们在与异性进行言语交际时，要比在同性面前更多地使用委婉语，女性要比男性更多地使
