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1、AComparativeStudyofEnglishEuphemismandChineseEuphemism ABSTRACTEuphemismsaremild,agreeable,orroundaboutwordsusedinplaceofcoarse,painful,oroffensiveones.ThetermcomesfromtheGreek，eumeaning“well”or“soundinggood”andphememeaning“speech”.Euphemismliterallymeansgoodorpleasantspeech.Asanindispens
2、ableandnaturalpartoflanguage,euphemismhasbeenarousingwideinterest.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenonfromtheperspectivesofrhetoric,semantics,pragmaticsandsociolinguists.Asaresult,achievementsinthestudyofeuphemismhavebeenconspicuous.Thus,onthebasisofothers’researches
3、,thisthesisattemptstodoacomprehensiveanalysisofEnglisheuphemismsandChineseeuphemismsbycomparativelyanalyzingtheirlinguisticandculturalcharacteristics.Thisthesisconsistsoffiveparts,withanintroductionandaconclusionprecedingandfollowingthem.Aseuphemismisalinguisticphenomenon,ChapterTwofirstst
4、atesthedefinitionofeuphemismandtheclassificationofeuphemismsandthenanalyzesthelinguisticfeaturesofeuphemism,thusbuildingupabetterunderstandingofeuphemism.ChapterThreeillustratestherelationshipamonglanguage,cultureandtaboo.ChapterFourcomparesEnglishandChineseeuphemismsinformation,rangeofuse
5、,andthengoesontoevaluatetheimportanceofeuphemism.Formationreferstophoneticdevice,lexicaldevice,grammaticaldeviceandrhetoricaldevice.Therangeofusecoverssuchtopicsasdeath,oldage,diseaseandphysicalshortcomings.Culture,embodiedbythelanguagesystem,iscloselyrelatedtoeuphemism.Therefore,asanindis
6、pensableandnaturalpartoflanguage,euphemismsareoftenculture-loadedandcarryculturalinformation.CulturaldifferencesbetweentheEnglishandChineselanguageandtheirimpactoneuphemismarealsoaddressedasacomplementarystudy.Euphemismplaysanimportantroleinourdailycommunication.Fromthedayitcameintoexisten
7、ce,euphemismhasbeenfunctioningtolubricateourcommunication,helpestablishagoodrelationshipbetweenhumanbeingsandevenstrengthensocialstability.ChapterFiveillustratesthreecommunicativefunctions,namelyavoidingtaboo,showingpolitenessandconcealingthetruth.ChapterSixdi
