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1、DeathEuphemismsbetweenChineseandEnglish:AContrastiveAnalysisAbstract:EuphemismisatypicalandcommonculturalphenomenoninbothChineseandEnglishcommunities,whichhasalongstandinghistory.Deatheuphemism,whichplaysavitalroleinlinguistics,isanimportantcomponentofeuphemism.Thethesistendstomak
2、eacontrastiveanalysisofdeatheuphemismbetweenChineseandEnglishunderthetwoabsolutelydifferentculturecharacteristicsandtoexplorethedeepcultureconnotationsunderthislanguagephenomenon.Thisthesisiscomposedoffourparts:Partone,theintroduction,presentsabriefviewofeuphemismanddeatheuphemism
3、.Manypreviousresearchesofeuphemismarestatedandprovidethedefinitionofeuphemism.Parttwoisthemainbodyofthewholethesis:Parttwoprovidesthetheoreticalbackgroundsandbasesofdeatheuphemism,mainlyabout“thetheoryofthecontextofculture”andAmericananthropologistFlorenceKluckhohn’s“FiveOrientati
4、on”.PartthreeclassifiesChinesedeatheuphemismandEnglishdeatheuphemismrespectively,andmakesacontrastiveanalysisofdeatheuphemisminChineseandEnglish,mainlyfromthreeaspects,namely,religions,socialcustomsandculturalpatterns.Thelastpartistheconclusionofthewholethesiswhichaimsatimprovingo
5、urunderstandingofotherculturesaswellasourowncultures,especiallydeathcultures.KeyWords:Death;euphemism;culture;difference1.IntroductionBothChineseandEnglishCommunitieshavecertainnotionsthatpeopletrytomentionindirectly,eventhenthereissuchaterminthislanguage.Sincewordsrelatedtounplea
6、santthingswouldmakepeoplefeeluncomfortable.Therefore,whenpeoplementionedsuchnotions,theuserwillsubstituteadifferentoranindirecttermthatsoundsbetterthanthedirectone.TheEnglishword“euphemism”comesfromtheGreekeu,meaning“well”or“soundinggood”,andpheme,meaning“speech”or“saying”thatis,s
7、peakingwithgoodwordsorbettermanners.Deathisthemostterribleeventtohuman13being.Asaconsequence,itisaforbiddenareaineveryculture.Toavoidmentioningdirectly,theword“euphemisms”arecreatedtosubstituteforit.Deatheuphemismisnotonlylinguisticphenomenon,butalsoaculturalphenomenon,whichcanref
8、lectthetraditionalvalue,religion,
