中外委婉语差异浅谈

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1、毕业论文TheDifferencesbetweenChineseEuphemismandEnglishEuphemism中外委婉语差异浅谈教务处制Abstract:Euphemismasanindispensableandnaturalpartoflanguage,euphemismhasarousingwideinterest.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenonfromtheperspectivesofrhetoric,semantics,pragmaticsandsoc

2、iology.Thus,onthebasisofothers5researches,thisthesisattemptstodoacomprehensiveanalysisofEnglisheuphemismsandChineseeuphemismsbycomparativelyanalyzingtheirlinguisticandculturalcharacteristics.TostudythedifferencescanhelpusstudyEnglishandtranslatesuccessfully,removethebarriersduring

3、communicationwithdifferentcultures.Atthesametime,tostrengthenculturalcommunicationcanhelpusunderstandthelikenessanddifferencesofthetwoEuphemisms.Keywords:Euphemism;Chinese;English;DifferenceContentsIntroduction41•TheSourceofEuphemism4TheDefinitionsofEuphemism4ClassificationofEuphe

4、mism5L2.1PositiveEuphemismandNegativeEuphemism5TheDifferencesinEuphemismResultinDifferentValues62」EuphemisminDailyLife6AboutAge6AboutPovertyandRich7AboutBodyFigure8AboutSalary8AboutSexandMarriage92.1.1EuphemisminEducation102.1.2EuphemisminPoliticalLife11DifferentReligiousBeliefand

5、SocialSystems11ClassCharacterofChineseEuphemism113.2ReligionCharacterofEnglishEuphemism12TendencyofDevelopmentinEuphemismofDifferentForms135-Conclusion14Acknowledgement16Bibliography15IntroductionAlmostinallculturesthatseemtobecertainnotionsorthingsthatpeopletrytoavoidmentioningdi

6、rectly,thoughtherearesuchtermsinthelanguagewhenthesenotionsorthingshavetobereferredto,peopletendtousewordsorexpressionsthatsoundbetter.Thistypeofwordsandexpressionsisdefinedas"euphemism：Asoneformoflanguage,euphemismisacommonphenomenonbothinChineseandEnglish・Itiswidelyusedinpractic

7、alcommunication,whichenablesspeakerstotalkabouttabooedthingsfreely.Euphemismisnotonlyalanguagephenomenonbutalsoaculturalone."Ifthereisnoeuphemism,theworldwillceasetooperatebecauseoffrictions;peoplewillbefoughtwithmortalenemies."(WangFu—Xiang1997:202)Inaway,theeuphemismderivedfroms

8、uchcircumstancesofavoidingembarra