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1、DeathEuphemismsbetweenChineseandEnglish:AContrastiveAnalysisAbstract:EuphemismisatypicalandcommonculturalphenomenoninbothChineseandEnglishcommunities,whichhasalongstandinghistory.Deatheuphemism,whichplaysavitalroleinlinguistics,isanimportantcomponentofeuphemism.Thethesistendstomakeacontrastive
2、analysisofdeatheuphemismbetweenChineseandEnglishunderthetwoabsolutelydifferentculturecharacteristicsandtoexplorethedeepcultureconnotationsunderthislanguagephenomenon.Thisthesisiscomposedoffourparts:Partone,theintroduction,presentsabriefviewofeuphemismanddeatheuphemism.Manypreviousresearchesofe
3、uphemismarestatedandprovidethedefinitionofeuphemism.Parttwoisthemainbodyofthewholethesis:Parttwoprovidesthetheoreticalbackgroundsandbasesofdeatheuphemism,mainlyabout“thetheoryofthecontextofculture”andAmericananthropologistFlorenceKluckhohn’s“FiveOrientation”.PartthreeclassifiesChinesedeatheuph
4、emismandEnglishdeatheuphemismrespectively,andmakesacontrastiveanalysisofdeatheuphemisminChineseandEnglish,mainlyfromthreeaspects,namely,religions,socialcustomsandculturalpatterns.Thelastpartistheconclusionofthewholethesiswhichaimsatimprovingourunderstandingofotherculturesaswellasourowncultures
5、,especiallydeathcultures.KeyWords:Death;euphemism;culture;difference1.IntroductionBothChineseandEnglishCommunitieshavecertainnotionsthatpeopletrytomentionindirectly,eventhenthereissuchaterminthislanguage.Sincewordsrelatedtounpleasantthingswouldmakepeoplefeeluncomfortable.Therefore,whenpeopleme
6、ntionedsuchnotions,theuserwillsubstituteadifferentoranindirecttermthatsoundsbetterthanthedirectone.TheEnglishword“euphemism”comesfromtheGreekeu,meaning“well”or“soundinggood”,andpheme,meaning“speech”or“saying”thatis,speakingwithgoodwordsorbettermanners.Deathisthemostterribleeventtohuman13being.
7、Asaconsequence,itisaforbiddenareaineveryculture.Toavoidmentioningdirectly,theword“euphemisms”arecreatedtosubstituteforit.Deatheuphemismisnotonlylinguisticphenomenon,butalsoaculturalphenomenon,whichcanreflectthetraditionalvalue,religion,
