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1、從合作原則看英語委婉語研究
[Abstract]Theword“euphemism”comesfromtheGreek,eu--means“good”,and–pheme-,“speech”or“saying”,andtogetheritmeansliterally“tospeakwithgoodwordsorinapleasantmanner”.Euphemism,asaculturalphenomenonaswellasalinguisticconcept,hasattractedpeople’sattentionforalongtime.Ithaslongbeenatopic
2、ofmuchinterest.Generallyspeaking,peoplewouldusemoreeuphemismsincommunicatingwiththeoppositesex;womenwouldusemorethanmenwould;olderpeoplewouldusemorethanyoungergenerations.Peoplewouldmoreuseeuphemismsin”power”relationsthanincloserelations.Peoplewithhighereducationwouldusemoreeuphemisms.Theabove
3、factors:age,sex,socialstatus,education,etc.donotworkseparately.Incommunicating,theyareinterlacedwitheachotherandguideourchoiceofeuphemisms.whethertouseeuphemismsortaboowordsalsodepends,toalargeextent,ontheattitudesofparticipantsandthepurposeofconversations.Thearticle
consistsofsixparts.Partone
4、explainswhatthemeaningofeuphemismis.ParttwoissayingthecooperativePrincipleinbriefly.cooperativePrinciple,thecornerstonetheoryofpragmatics,isoneofthemainprinciplesthatguidepeople’scommunication.ThecooperativePrincipleanditsmaximscanexplainwhattheliteralmeaningisanditsrealintentionincommunicatio
5、nandensurethatinanexchangeofconversation.Partthreepresents,theformationeuphemism,namely,formalinnovation,semanticinnovation,rhetoricaldevices,andgrammaticalways.Partfourdiscussesthecommunicativefunctionofeuphemismissubstitution,politeness,disguise,defense,etc.Partfiveservesasthemainbodyofthisa
6、rticle.Generallyspeaking,euphemismsviolatetheQuality,QuantityandmannermaximofthecPduetodifferentreasonslikesubstitution,disguiseetc.AndbasicallyeuphemismsobservetheRelationmaxim.Fromtheanalysis,itcanbealsofoundthatsometimesaneuphemismcanberegardedasviolationoftwomaximsofthecPatthesametime.Part
7、sixconcludesthewholearticle.
[keywords]cooperativePrinciple;Euphemism;communicativefunction
【摘要】委婉語一詞起源于希臘語。Eu意思是“好的”,pheme意思是“話語”,因此字面上的意思是說好聽的話或用禮貌的方式說話。委婉語是一個語言學(xué)概念,同時也是一種文化現(xiàn)象,長久以來一直受到人們的關(guān)注。總體上講人們在與異性進(jìn)行言語交際時,要比在同性面前更多地使用委婉語,女性要比男性更多地使