A Pragmatic Analysis of English Euphemism 委婉语的语用分析

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1、委婉语的语用分析APragmaticAnalysisofEnglishEuphemismAbstractAsanindispensableandnaturalpartofEnglishlanguage,theEnglisheuphemismhasbeenarousingpeople'sgreatinterest.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenonfromsemanticandrhetoricalangles.Basedontheirachievements,wewillh

2、aveanexplorationofEnglisheuphemismsfromthepragmaticperspective.Euphemismsarerichanddiversified,whichcanreflectthecharacteristicsandlawsofalanguage.TheexistenceoftheEnglisheuphemismshouldabidebycertainprinciplesofthelanguage,whereastheirusedependslargelyonacontextandhasagreateffec

3、tondailycommunication.ThethesisfocusesonanalyzingpragmaticfeaturesoftheEnglisheuphemism,showingtherelationshipbetweentheeuphemismandpragmatics.Thoughviolatingtheco-operativeprinciples,theeuphemismiscloselyrelatedtotheindirectspeechacttheoryandrelevancetheory.Humancommunicationisc

4、onductedinaparticularcontext.Theeuphemism,asacommonlanguagephenomenon,iscloselyconnectedwithacontext.Acontextcaninfluencethechoiceandinterpretationofeuphemisms.Ifparticipantshaveathoroughunderstandingofthecontextanduseeuphemismsappropriately,communicationisunderstandableandcanbec

5、arriedoutsmoothly.Thenatureoftheeuphemismliesinitsindirectness,whichisreferredtoastheindirectspeechactbymanyresearchers.Thehighestcriterionofcommunicationisexactandtactful.Incommunication,languagestrategiesmustbecarriedoutinordertoprotectothers'andoneself’sface.Andtheuseoftheeuph

6、emismisoneofeffectivemethodsindeed.TheEnglisheuphemismchangesconstantlyanditsmeaningsaredominantlyinfluencedbysocialandpragmaticfactors.Therefore,forEnglishlearners,howtousetheEnglisheuphemismeffectivelyisofgreatimportanceincommunication.Usingtheeuphemismaccordingtothepragmaticco

7、ntextandabidingbycertainpragmaticprinciplesmightbethebasisforsuccessfulcommunication.Keywords:theEnglisheuphemism,context,theCo-operativePrinciple内容摘要英语委婉语作为英语词汇中不可分割的一部分，一直引起人们的关注。多年来许多语言学家和学者分别从不同角度对这一语言现象进行研究。本文作者借鉴他们的研究成果从语言学的角度探讨委婉语与语用的关系。长期以来，语言学家主要从语义和修辞的角度定义委婉语。因此本文首先从语用学

8、的角度重新定义委婉语，分析其构成及分类原则。其次，委婉语的内容丰富，能从多方面反