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1、 攀枝花学院本科毕业论文从交际功能看英汉委婉语学生姓名： 张晓艳 学生学号： 200410208155 院（系）： 外国语学院 年级专业： 2004 级英语本科 3 班 指导教师： 冯霞 讲师 二二八年五月八年五月Zhang XiaoyanUnder the Supervision ofFeng XiaSchool of Foreign Languages and CulturesPanzhihua UniversityMay 2008A Comparative Analysis of English and Chinese Euphemisms from the Perspective of
2、 Communication Functions攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 ContentsContentsAbstract.IKey Words .I摘要.关键词.Introduction.1I. The Function of Taboos.3 A. The Euphemism of Death.3B. The Euphemism of Disease.5 II. The Function of Avoidance of Vulgarity.6A. The Euphemism of Sex.6B. The Euphemism of the Parts of Body.7 C. The Euph
3、emism of Excreta.7D. The Euphemism of Marriage and Pregnancy.8 III. The Function of Politeness.9A. The Euphemism of Being Old.9B. The Euphemism of Handicapped.10C. The Euphemism of Poverty.11D. Other Euphemisms：dismissal，unemployment，appearance .12.The Function of Concealment.13A. Political Euphemis
4、m: international situation, diplomacy.13B. Economical Euphemism: economic crisis，tax, unemployment.13C. Martial Euphemism.14攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 Contents. The Function of Compliment .14Conclusion.16Acknowledgements.17Bibliography.18攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 AbstractAbstractEuphemism is a widespread linguistic phenomenon,
5、which is not only a social language phenomenon, but it is also a cultural phenomenon. It plays an important role in eliminating misunderstanding or conflicts among people，and harmonizing interpersonal relationship. This thesis makes a contrastive study of the English and Chinese euphemism to discove
6、r the similarities and differences between them. It discusses euphemisms mainly from the perspective of communication functions including function of taboos, function of avoidance of vulgarity, function of politeness, function of concealment, and function of compliment, which are of considerable val
7、ue and guidance to our foreign language learning and teaching, intercultural communication, translation, dictionary compilation and so on.Key WordsEuphemism; taboo; politeness; concealment; compliment攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 摘要摘 要委婉语的创造和使用是人类语言中的一种普遍的现象。它不仅是一种社会语言现象，更是一种文化现象。它具有消除误解和摩擦，协调社会人际关系的重要作用。本文试从交际功能角度，即
8、避讳功能、避俗功能、礼貌功能、掩饰功能、褒扬功能五大方面入手对英汉委婉语进行比较研究，通过英汉委婉语的对比，我们可以了解两种语言以及中西方两种文化的共性和个性，这对外语学习与教学、跨文化交际、翻译、词典编纂等具有较大的指导意义。关键词委婉语；避讳功能；避俗功能；礼貌功能；掩饰功能；褒扬功能 攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 Introduction1IntroductionEuphemism is a common linguistic phenomenon in different cultures. From the moment it is coined, it plays an importan
9、t role in peoples daily communication. They are embedded so deeply in our language that most of us, even those who pride themselves in being plainspoken, never get through a day without using them. Like Robert Burchfield wrote in his book Fair of Speech: The Use of Euphemism, “a language without eup
10、hemisms would be a defective instrument of communication” (126). The word “Euphemism” comes from the Greek eu, meaning “good”, and phene “speech” or “saying,” and thus means literally “to speak with good words or in a pleasant manner”. As a kind of figurative device, euphemism has been defined diffe
11、rently. Euphemisms are mild, agreeable, or roundabout words used in place of coarse, painful, or offensive one (Rawson,1). In China, Chen Wangdao was the first person who gave euphemism a definition, in his Introduction to Rhetoric, the definition reads, “one kind of figures of speech, saying someth
12、ing indirectly, but connoting and substituting with roundabout and implicit words or even metaphorical” (56). The limitation of the definition of euphemism is broken down by a famous American linguist D. Bolinger who points out that “Euphemism is not restricted to the lexicon. There are grammatical ways of toning
