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1、ONEUPHEMISMAbstractResearchesoneuphemismthatbelongstotheareaofindirectspeech,willcertainlybehelpfultothecorrectcomprehensionandapplicationofindirectspeech.Thispaperanalysesfivecharacteristicsofeuphemism,namely,universality,culturespecificity,re-symbolism,obscurityandbeaut
2、ification.Anditalsoanalysesthegeneralreasonswhypeoplesometimesresorttoeuphemismsandexpoundsthephoneticmeansandsemanticmeanspeopleusuallyadoptineuphemizing.Keywords:euphemism;characteristics;reason;device論委婉語摘要間接交流中的委婉語的研究，必定對間接交流的理解和運用都很有幫助。本篇論文分析了委婉語的五個特點：廣泛性，文化針對性，再替性，晦
3、澀性和美化性。同時也分析了人們運用委婉語的原因以及在委婉語中用到的語音和語義方法。關(guān)鍵詞：委婉語；特點；原因；方式ONEUPHEMISM1.IntroductionEuphemismisdefinedinLongmanDictionaryofContemporaryEnglishas"theuseofapleasanter,lessdirectnameofsomethingthoughttobeunpleasant."TheNewEditionoftheOxfordConciseDictionarydefineseuphemismas"s
4、ubstitutionofmildorvagueexpressionforharshordirectone;expressionthussubstituted."InWebster'sNewCollegiateDictionary,thedefinitionofeuphemismreads,"substitutionofanagreeableorinoffensiveexpressionforonethatmayoffendorsuggestsomethingunpleasant."2.CharacteristicsofEuphemism
5、Euphemism,asalanguagephenomenon,hassomespecialcharacteristics.Tosucceedinlearningalanguageorassociatinginthelanguagewiththenativespeakers,learnersofthelanguageshouldpaymuchattentiontothefollowingfeaturesofeuphemism.2.1UniversalityInalmostallculturestherearecertainnotionso
6、rthingsstronglyforbiddenbysocialcustoms.Thatis,therearetaboosinalmostallcountries.Generallypeopletrytoavoidmentioningthetaboosdirectly.Whenthetabooshavetobereferredto,itislikelythatpeopletendtosubstituteexpressionsthatsoundbetter.2.2CulturespecificityTheuniversalexistence
7、ofeuphemisminlanguagesdoesn'tmeanthateuphemismsareidenticalindifferentlanguages.Euphemismhascloserelevancetoculture.Whatisnecessarytobeeuphemizedinoneculturemaynotbenecessarytobeeuphemizedinanother.Forexample,thequestionsaboutage,one'smaritalstatusorpricesofone'sbelonging
8、s,althoughinoffensivetoChinese,shouldbeavoidedwhenconversingwithEnglish-speakingpeople.2.3Re-sym
