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1、AnAnalysisofEnglishandChineseLinguisticTaboo1IntroductionOnsocialcontacts,especiallyinthecross-culturalcommunications,youwilloftenmeetasensitiveissuewhichistaboo.Taboorestraintsourlanguageandbehaviorsasaninvisiblediscipline,andmakesusdarenottotransgresstheboundsinth
2、eforbiddenground.Tabooisalmosteverywhere,andlinguistictabooisanimportantpartofthesocialtaboos.Inanykindofcultureandanysociety,therearelinguistictaboos,andinEnglishandAmericansocietythereisnaturallynoexception.Inthesameculture,becauseofthedifferenceofregions,taboosha
3、vesomethingincommonandalsosomedifferences.Indifferentcultures,thetaboodifferenceswillbegreater.Becauseofthis,taboosetsabarrierinourcommunication,especiallyinthecross-culturalcommunication,whichmakespeoplepayattentiontoit,toavoidit,tomakesurethatthecommunicationcanbe
4、well.Actually,theChinesepeople,sinceancienttimes,havepaidgreatattentiontothisproblem.TheBookofRighthasexplicitlyspecifiedtheetiquettenormof"WheninRome,doasRomansdo.”Andwiththeevolutionofhistory,peopleevenputsomeimportantforbiddenintotheregulationinthepublictoattract
5、attention.English-speakingpeoplealsofocusontabooverymuch.Indailycommunication,ifanyonewhoviolatesthetaboo,onemayexpressunhappiness,andthemoreseriouscaseisthatitmaymakeoneturnhostileandevendon'tbreakoff.Therefore,wecanseethat,knowingabouttaboocandowellfortheinternati
6、onalrelations.2TheevolutionoflinguistictabooLinguistictaboooriginallycamefromtheword“taboo”.“Taboo”cameintoexistenceisbecausethatatthattimehumanbeingsdidn'tunderstand,orcouldn’tunderstandanaturalphenomenonandtheessenceofnature.Intheeighteenthcentury,anEnglishnavigat
7、orcalledJamesCooksailedtoTongaArchipelagoesintheSouthPacificOcean.Hefoundtherearemanystrangesocialphenomenaamongtheresidents,somecertainthingscouldbeusedbytheupperclasslikegod,monk,thekingandthechief,andnotallowtheordinarypeopletouse；Orcouldonlybeusedforspecificpurp
8、oses,andwasnotallowedforthegeneralpurposes；Ordidn'tallowsomesocialgrouporsomepeoplesuchaswomentouse,etc.Theresidentscalledthis“taboo”.Then
