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1、AnAnalysisofEnglishandChineseLinguisticTaboo1IntroductionOnsocialcontacts,especiallyinthecross-culturalcommunications,youwilloftenmeetasensitiveissuewhichistaboo.Taboorestraintsourlanguageandbehaviorsasaninvisiblediscipline,andmakesusdarenottotransgresstheboundsintheforbidd
2、enground.Tabooisalmosteverywhere,andlinguistictabooisanimportantpartofthesocialtaboos.Inanykindofcultureandanysociety,therearelinguistictaboos,andinEnglishandAmericansocietythereisnaturallynoexception.Inthesameculture,becauseofthedifferenceofregions,tabooshavesomethingincom
3、monandalsosomedifferences.Indifferentcultures,thetaboodifferenceswillbegreater.Becauseofthis,taboosetsabarrierinourcommunication,especiallyinthecross-culturalcommunication,whichmakespeoplepayattentiontoit,toavoidit,tomakesurethatthecommunicationcanbewell.Actually,theChinese
4、people,sinceancienttimes,havepaidgreatattentiontothisproblem.TheBookofRighthasexplicitlyspecifiedtheetiquettenormof"WheninRome,doasRomansdo.”Andwiththeevolutionofhistory,peopleevenputsomeimportantforbiddenintotheregulationinthepublictoattractattention.English-speakingpeople
5、alsofocusontabooverymuch.Indailycommunication,ifanyonewhoviolatesthetaboo,onemayexpressunhappiness,andthemoreseriouscaseisthatitmaymakeoneturnhostileandevendon'tbreakoff.Therefore,wecanseethat,knowingabouttaboocandowellfortheinternationalrelations.2Theevolutionoflinguistict
6、abooLinguistictaboooriginallycamefromtheword“taboo”.“Taboo”cameintoexistenceisbecausethatatthattimehumanbeingsdidn'tunderstand,orcouldn’tunderstandanaturalphenomenonandtheessenceofnature.Intheeighteenthcentury,anEnglishnavigatorcalledJamesCooksailedtoTongaArchipelagoesinthe
7、SouthPacificOcean.Hefoundtherearemanystrangesocialphenomenaamongtheresidents,somecertainthingscouldbeusedbytheupperclasslikegod,monk,thekingandthechief,andnotallowtheordinarypeopletouse；Orcouldonlybeusedforspecificpurposes,andwasnotallowedforthegeneralpurposes；Ordidn'tallow
8、somesocialgrouporsomepeoplesuchaswomentouse,etc.Theresidentscalledthis“taboo”.Then
