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1、EnglishTabooWordsandItsPragmaticFunctionsAbstract:Differentcountrieshavedifferenttaboos.Furthermore,linguistictabooschangewiththedevelopmentofsociety.WiththeincreasingimportanceofcommunicationbetweenEnglishandChinese,EnglishtaboowordsusuallybecomeblockforEnglishlearners.Therefore,
2、learningEnglishtaboosandtheirpragmaticfunctionsisquiteessential.Thepaperfirstlytriestomakeananalysisofwhatlinguistictabooisonthebasisofsomeresearchstudyanditssignificance.Secondly,itintroducesseveralimportantclassificationsofEnglishtaboo.Thepaperpointsoutthatdifferenttabooshavedif
3、ferentpragmaticfunctionsandthewaysofavoidingtaboo.KeyWords:Englishtaboowords;evolution;pragmaticfunctions;formsⅠ.IntroductionInlanguagecommunication,forsomereasons,certainwordsareavoidedtobeusedbypeople.Theyconsiderthemsacred,dangerous,unpleasantoroffensive.Thesewordsaretobeforbid
4、deninmanysituations,particularlyinmoderncivilization,butonlyallowedandusedbycertainpeopleinsomespecificcircumstances.Thisphenomenoniswhatwecalllinguistictaboo.Taboophenomenonhasbeenwidelyfoundinallculturesintheword.Whenthisphenomenonisextendedtolanguage,linguistictaboocomesintobei
5、ng.Languageandculturearecloselyrelated,andthedifferencesbetweencultureshaveatremendousimpactonthefeaturesoflanguage.ThereforewecanconcludethereisvastdifferenceinEnglishandChinesetaboo.However,noteveryoneknowstheirspecificdifferencewhichcauseseasilytomakemistakesandembarrassmentinc
6、ulturalexchange.Forexample,inChina,weusuallyaskpeoplehowoldtheyare.Onthecontrary,inEngland,itisextremelynotpolitetoasktheirage,whichisregardedasanexceedinglyprivatequestion.What’smore,somewordsmayleadtorelevantpsychologicalbehaviorofusingthosereverentorunpleasantwords.Thesewordspe
7、rhapsresultinuneasiness,dreadorsadness,sopeopletrytoavoidusingthesedispleasedwordsdirectly.Theseannoyingwordsgraduallybelongtolinguistictaboo.Theneuphemismwhichisthoughttobelessoffensiveorunpleasantthananotherwordandexpressesthesemeaningsnaturallyemerged.Forinstance,Englishpeopleh
8、ardlyusetheword“die”,instead,they
