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1、AContrastiveStudyofEuphemismsinEnglishandChineseLanguages一.Thesigficanceoftheselectedtopic:Withthedevelopmentofeconomyandtheincreaseofcommunication,peoplepaymoreattentiontotheskillsoflanguage.Languageandculturearecloselyrelatedtoeachother,andlanguageisthecarrierandreflectorofculture.Euphem
2、ismisawidespreadlinguisticphenomenonindifferentcultures.Itismoresubtleawaytoexpressembarrasingwordsortaboos.Ithelpsusexpressourideasorpointsinaproperway.EnglisheuphemismandChineseeuphemismreflectstheculturalandlinguisticsimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetwocountries.Manylinguistsandschol
3、arsathomeandabroadhavestudiedeuphemismfromdifferentperspectives,suchassemantics,sociolinguistics,rhetorics,psychologyandpragmatics.However,thepreviousresearchesaremainlydoneinasinglelanguage.WhilecontrastivestudiesonbothChineseandEnglisheuphemismsarecomparativelylimited.Thisthesismakesacon
4、trastivestudyofEnglishandChineseeuphemismsfromdifferentperspectives.Therefoer,thepaperwillenrichpreviousresearches.BymakingacontrastiveanalysisofeuphemisminEnglishandChinese,wecanhaveabetterunderstandingoftheEnglishandChineseculturesandtheninterpretanduseeuphemismappropriatelyincross-cultu
5、ralcommunication.Itwillprovideguidancesforkeepingagoodpersonalrelationship.Researchstatus:Inthe1580s,theEnglishwriterGeorgeBluntfirstusedtheword“Euphemism”anddefinedit“agoodorinfavorableinterpretationofabadword”.AndthentheAmericanlinguist-MenkendiscussedthecausesofhundredsofEnglisheuphemis
6、ms’origionandpopularityinaccordingtoAmericanhistoryandculture.TheworkswrittenbyBritishlinguist-HughRawsontracedbacktotheresearchhistoryofeuphemismandthewriteralsodiscussedthedefination,classification,characteristicsoftheeuphemismextensively.Anotherlinguist-Leechappliedtheprincipleofpoliten
7、essastheprincipleofeuphemism.In1970sor19780s,withtheintroductionoftheforeignsociolinguisticstoourcountry,thespecialsocialfunctionofeuphemismattractedournativelinguisticresearcheralot.In21stcentury,theresearchersenlargedtherangeofstudy,theystudythesocialfunctio
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