cultural differences in chinese and english euphemism on death

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1、毕业论文（设计）CulturalDifferencesinChineseandEnglishEuphemismonDeath1.Introduction12.Euphemism22.1Definitions22.2Characteristics33.DeathEuphemism44.Thecomparativestudyofthe“death”EuphemisminChineseandEnglish54.1TheoriginofChineseandEnglisheuphemismondeath.54.2Therefl

2、ectionsofdifferentreligiousbeliefs,socialstatus,socialvaluesandlifestyles.64.2.1Deatheuphemismandreligiousbeliefs64.2.2Deatheuphemismandsocialstatus84.2.3Deatheuphemismandsocialvalues104.2.4Deatheuphemismandsociallifestyles115.Deatheuphemismandcross-culturecomm

3、unication126.Conclusion14References1617毕业论文（设计）1.IntroductionLanguageisusedtoavoidsayingcertainthingsaswellastoexpressthem(RonaldWardhaugh,2000).Ineverylanguagethereseemstobecertainunmentionablewords.AsRonaldWardhaugh(2000)claims,“Certainthingsarenotsaid,notbec

4、ausetheycannotbe,butbecause‘peopledonottalkaboutthosethings’;or,ifthosethingsaretalkedabout,theyaretalkedaboutinveryroundaboutways.”Thustherearetwolinguisticconcepts——taboointhefirstplaceaswellaseuphemisminthesecond,soastoavoidmentioningcertainmattersinthedirec

5、tway.“Euphemism”canbedividedintothe“eu”and“phemism”,“phemism”means“wordsofgoodomen”or“goodspeech”inthelanguageofGreece(OxfordDictionaryofEuphemisms,“deatheuphemism,”int.1995).Euphemism,inBolinger’s(1975)eyes,isanameforsomethingunpleasantproducingthesamequalmsas

6、theunpleasantthingitself,andtendstobeavoided.Euphemismasapartofourlivesiseverywhere.“Death”EuphemismisamajorpartoftheEuphemism.Peopleusetheeuphemismofdeathtomakethe“dead”soundsnotsoterrible.AccordingtoOxfordDictionaryofEuphemisms(“deatheuphemism,”int.1995),ther

7、eareabout400kindsofwordingsofthe“death”euphemisminEnglish.Deathisdescribedas“havingpassedaway”,“departed”andsoon.“Death”Euphemismisnotonlyalinguisticphenomenon,butalsoreflectsculturaldifferencesbetweenthedifferentculturalphenomena.Numerousresearchershavetriedth

8、eirbesttogivetheirparticularandsystematicexplanationsonthiskindofeuphemism.ThisthesisanalyzedthedifferentwordingsofdeatheuphemisminEnglishandChinese.Bystudyingfromthe“death”