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1、委婉語的語用分析APragmaticAnalysisofEnglishEuphemismAbstractAsanindispensableandnaturalpartofEnglishlanguage,theEnglisheuphemismhasbeenarousingpeople'sgreatinterest.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthislinguisticphenomenonfromsemanticandrhetoricalangles.Basedontheirachievements,wewillh
2、aveanexplorationofEnglisheuphemismsfromthepragmaticperspective.Euphemismsarerichanddiversified,whichcanreflectthecharacteristicsandlawsofalanguage.TheexistenceoftheEnglisheuphemismshouldabidebycertainprinciplesofthelanguage,whereastheirusedependslargelyonacontextandhasagreateffec
3、tondailycommunication.ThethesisfocusesonanalyzingpragmaticfeaturesoftheEnglisheuphemism,showingtherelationshipbetweentheeuphemismandpragmatics.Thoughviolatingtheco-operativeprinciples,theeuphemismiscloselyrelatedtotheindirectspeechacttheoryandrelevancetheory.Humancommunicationisc
4、onductedinaparticularcontext.Theeuphemism,asacommonlanguagephenomenon,iscloselyconnectedwithacontext.Acontextcaninfluencethechoiceandinterpretationofeuphemisms.Ifparticipantshaveathoroughunderstandingofthecontextanduseeuphemismsappropriately,communicationisunderstandableandcanbec
5、arriedoutsmoothly.Thenatureoftheeuphemismliesinitsindirectness,whichisreferredtoastheindirectspeechactbymanyresearchers.Thehighestcriterionofcommunicationisexactandtactful.Incommunication,languagestrategiesmustbecarriedoutinordertoprotectothers'andoneself’sface.Andtheuseoftheeuph
6、emismisoneofeffectivemethodsindeed.TheEnglisheuphemismchangesconstantlyanditsmeaningsaredominantlyinfluencedbysocialandpragmaticfactors.Therefore,forEnglishlearners,howtousetheEnglisheuphemismeffectivelyisofgreatimportanceincommunication.Usingtheeuphemismaccordingtothepragmaticco
7、ntextandabidingbycertainpragmaticprinciplesmightbethebasisforsuccessfulcommunication.Keywords:theEnglisheuphemism,context,theCo-operativePrinciple內(nèi)容摘要英語委婉語作為英語詞匯中不可分割的一部分,一直引起人們的關(guān)注。多年來許多語言學(xué)家和學(xué)者分別從不同角度對這一語言現(xiàn)象進(jìn)行研究。本文作者借鑒他們的研究成果從語言學(xué)的角度探討委婉語與語用的關(guān)系。長期以來,語言學(xué)家主要從語義和修辭的角度定義委婉語。因此本文首先從語用學(xué)
8、的角度重新定義委婉語,分析其構(gòu)成及分類原則。其次,委婉語的內(nèi)容豐富,能從多方面反