A Comparative Study of English Euphemism and Chinese Euphemism

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1、AComparativeStudyofEnglishEuphemismandChineseEuphemism  CONTENTSAbstractAcknowledgementsI.Introduction……….………………………………………………………..…..1II.ReviewofLiterature………………….………………………………………42.1DefinitionofEuphemism…………………………….………………....…42.2ClassificationofEuphemism…………………………………………..…72.2.1PositiveEuphemism

2、andNegativeEuphemism…………….….….72.2.2ConsciousEuphemismandUnconsciousEuphemism………..…...92.2.3OtherClassificationsofEuphemism…….……………………..…10III.Language,Culture,TabooandEuphemism…………………………...….113.1LanguageandEuphemism……………………………………………...113.2CultureandEuphemism…….…………………………………….…….123.3TabooandE

3、uphemism…………………………………………..……...13IV.ComparisonBetweenChineseandEnglishEuphemisms.................…….154.1IntermsofFormation………….......……………………………………154.1.1PhoneticDevice..…...……………………………….…………..154.1.2LexicalDevice..……...…………………………….……………164.1.3RhetoricalDevice…………………………………..……………214.1.4Grammati

4、calDevice……………...………………...……………224.2IntermsofRangeofUse……..……………….……….……………….244.3IntermsofCulture….…………..………………………..……………..264.3.1DifferentReligions..…………………………....………..………264.3.2DifferentPractices..…………………………….....…..…………294.3.3DifferentConnotationsofOld….……...………..……………….30V.CommunicativeFunc

5、tionsofEuphemism………..………………………..335.1AvoidingTaboo………..………………………...………...……………..335.2ShowingPoliteness………………………………….………………...…355.3ConcealingTruth………………………..………………………………38VI.TranslatingofEnglishandChineseEuphemisms……………..…....……41VII.Conclusion………………………………………….………….…..……….45Bibliography………………………

6、……………………………….……………47            ABSTRACTEuphemismsaremild,agreeable,orroundaboutwordsusedinplaceofcoarse,painful,oroffensiveones.ThetermcomesfromtheGreek，eumeaning“well”or“soundinggood”andphememeaning“speech”.Euphemismliterallymeansgoodorpleasantspeech.Asanindispensableandnaturalpartoflanguage,e

7、uphemismhasbeenarousingwideinterest.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenonfromtheperspectivesofrhetoric,semantics,pragmaticsandsociolinguists.Asaresult,achievementsinthestudyofeuphemismhavebeenconspicuou