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1、AComparativeStudyonChineseandEnglishTaboosAbstract:Nowadays,themutualcommunicationbetweenChinesepeopleandEnglishpeoplehasbecomemoreandmorefrequent.Itisimportantforbothpeoplestoknownotonlywhatutteranceispreferredbutalsowhatutteranceisforbiddenincross-culturalcommunication.Tabooisacomm
2、onlinguisticphenomenonbothinChineseandEnglish.Thisessayintroducesthesourceoftaboo,thedefinitionoftaboo,andthencomparesthedifferenceandsimilaritiesoflanguagetaboobetweenEnglishandChinesefromtheperspectivesofculturaldifferences.Themainpurposeistohelppeoplehaveabetterunderstandingofling
3、uistictabooanddevelopaclearerawarenessofavoidingtaboowordsincommunication,thusenhancingtheircross-culturalcommunicativecompetence.KeyWords:taboo;definition;similarity;difference中英禁忌語比較摘要：現(xiàn)在，中英兩國人民之間的相互交流變得越來越頻繁。對中英兩國人民來說在跨文化交際中不僅要知道講什么話是首選，而且了解哪些話是被禁忌的是十分重要的。禁忌語是中英文化中一個很普通的語言現(xiàn)象。這篇文章介
4、紹了禁忌語的起源和禁忌語的定義，也從文化差異這個角度比較了中英禁忌語的不同點和相同點。主要的目的使人們對語言禁忌有更好的了解，并且在交流中能夠建立更高的警覺性避免使用禁忌語，然后提高他們的跨文化交際能力。關(guān)鍵詞：禁忌語；定義；相似處；不同點CONTENTSIntroduction11.DefinitionofTaboo11.1DefinitionofTaboo11.2DifferencesbetweenTabooandEuphemism22.SimilartaboosinEnglishandChinese32.1ReligionandGod32.2Sex42.3
5、SecretionsandExcretions52.4DiseaseandDeath62.5SocialStatus82.6PrivacyonIncomeandWeight93.DifferenttaboosinEnglishandChinese103.1PoliticalOpinion103.2PrivacyonAgeandMarriage113.3Names114.Conclusion13Bibliography15IntroductionNowadays,taboohasbecomeacommonlyusedwordinanthropologyandstu
6、diesofreligionandfolkcustom.Furthermore,ithasbeenafairlyimportantfieldofthesebranchesoflearning.Ineverynationandculturetherearephenomenaofusingtabooindailylife.AbouttheoriginofTaboo,therearetwoviewpointsnow.OneviewpointisthatthetermTabooisoriginatedfromPolynesian(insouthPacific)Tonga
7、language.In1777,CaptainJamesCookarrivedinsouthPacificPolynesianTonga.InTonga,hefoundastrangebehaviorintheirdailylife.Thereweremanythingsforbiddentodo,manyfoodsforbiddentoeat,andsomewordsnotallowedtosay.ThelocallanguageofTongacalledthisphenomenonTabooorTabu.ThenCookborrowedthewordinto
8、English.Thew
