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1、AComparisononPragmaticFunctionsofEnglishandChineseEuphemism?Abstract:Euphemismsaremild,agreeable,orroundaboutwordsusedinplaceofcoarse,painful,oroffensiveones.ThetermcomesfromtheGreekeu,meaning"well"or"soundinggood,”andpheme,“speech."Euphemismplaysanimportantroleinourdailycom
2、munication.Fromthedayitcameintoexistence,euphemismhasbeenfunctioningtolubricateourcommunication,helpestablishagoodrelationshipbetweenhumanbeingsandevenstrengthensocialstability.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenonfromtheperspectivesofrhetoric,semantics
3、,pragmaticsandsociolinguists.Asaresult,achievementsinthestudyofeuphemismhavebeenconspicuous.Thus,onthebasisofothers’researches,thisthesisattemptstodoananalysisofpragmaticfunctionsofEnglishandChineseeuphemismsbycomparativelyanalyzingtheirlinguisticandculturalcharacteristics.K
4、eywords:euphemism;culturalconnotation;pragmaticfunction;communication?1.Introduction?1.1.?LanguageVariations:Euphemism?Inthebeginningwastheword.Therefollowed,atanundeterminedbutoneassumesdecentinterval,private,harsh,anddirtywords.Inventionherebeingthemotherofnecessity,thenee
5、dforeuphemismarose.(Epstein1985).Ineverysocietytherearecertainthingsthatarenotsupposedtobespokenormentioneddirectly.Afairnumberofwordsarelabeledasfrivolous,vulgar,oratleastinconsiderate.Butincommunication,forbettermaintainingsocialrelationshipandexchangingideas,peoplehavetor
6、esorttoakindoflanguage,whichcanmakedistastefulideasseemacceptableorevendesirable.Thistypeoflanguageisdefinedas“euphemism”inlinguisticsanditcomesinavarietyofformsandisusedforavarietyofreasons.Unlikeotherfigurativelanguagedevices,forexample,themetaphorofpoetryorprose,euphemism
7、aimstosurpriseandentertain(Lee,1966),strivestoavoidoffencebymeansofcircumlocution.Asacommunicativeskill—“tellingitlikeitisn’t,”(Time,1978),euphemismaboundsinourlife.Euphemismsarepowerfullinguisticdeviceswhich“areembeddedsodeeplyinourlanguagethatfewofus,eventhosewhopridethems
8、elvesonbeingplainspoken,evergetthroughadaywithoutusingthem.”(Rawson1981)?1.
