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1、浅谈英语委婉语和伊拉克战争[Abstract]Euphemismisamonlinguisticphenomenonintheglobalculture.Itplaysanimportantpartinourdailymunication.AsanindispensableandnaturalpartofEnglishlanguage,Englisheuphemismhasbeenarousingdifferentperspectives.Inthefieldofpoliticsandismhasbeeastrategytolubricatethemunic
2、ation.Thispaperfirstbrieflyintroducesthecharacteristicsoftheeuphemism:universality,culturespecificity,re-symbolism,obscurityandbeautification;themunicativefunctionsofeuphemism:substitution,politeness,coverandaesthetics;andthemunicativefunctionsofeuphemismonpoliticsands,tocoverpolit
3、icalscandals,todistortthefactsandviolenceofainlyanalysesthephenomenonofusingeuphemismbytheBushadministration,media,military,SaddamHussEinadministrationandhisofficialsduringtheIraqEIying,thecharacteristicsofeuphemismcanbegeneralizedinfiveaspects.Thatisuniversality,culturespecificity
4、,re-symbolism,obscurityandbeautification.2.1UniversalityAlmostallculturesseemtohavecertainnotionsorthingsthatpeopletrytoavoidmentioningdirectly.Thatis,nearlyeveryculturehasitsoorphrasethatsoundsbetter.“Soisminalmosteverylanguage.”[2]2.2CulturespecificityTheuniversalityofeuphemismme
5、ansthateuphemismsarenotidenticalindifferentlanguages.Insteadeuphemismisrelevanttoculture.Notions,things,ortaboosindifferentculturesarenotnecessarilythesame.Therefore,thepeople’sattitudestoaredifferent.Itisanothercharacteristicofeuphemismthatismproperly.”[3]2.3Re-symbolismFromthedef
6、initionofeuphemism,ismisusingoneexpressiontoreplaceanother.“Thatistosay,euphemismisare-symbolizingofthings,ideas,oreventsalreadysymbolizedind.Thereforepeoplecan’trandomlyutilizeanexpressiontoeuphemizethetaboos.There-symbolizingshouldprovidecluestocatchtheintendedmeaningofthetaboosa
7、ndshouldsoundindirectorpleasanter.”[4]2.4ObscurityObscurityisabasicfeatureofeuphemism.Inordertoavoidmentioningsomenotions,thingsortaboosdirectly,anticobscuritytotakeplaceofthepreciseple,toavoidmentioningthetermdeath,peopletakepainstosubstituteitsofpassatheismisticvalue.2.5Beautific
8、ationAnothercharacteristic
