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1、TheStudyontheFunctionsofEnglishEuphemism英语委婉语功能研究摘要：委婉语是一种常用的表达思想和观点的收段。许多语言学家和学者从不同的角度对委婉语这一语言现象进行研究。本文则尝试着对英语委婉语的功能进行探讨。论文包括三部分。首先，介绍委婉语的概念、分类和形成，由此可以使读者对委婉语的知识有总的了解。其次，论文通过结合生活当中一些有趣的例子着重讨论了英语委婉语的社会功能、修辞功能和交际功能。最后是结论部分。阐述了写作此文的意义和目的，同时指出我们在委婉语和其他语言现象的研究方
2、面还有很长的路要走。关键词：英语委婉语社会功能修辞功能交际功能Abstract:Euphemismisamodeofwaytoexpressourthoughtsandideas.Manylinguistsandscholarshavestudiedthisphenomenonfromdifferentperspectives.ThisthesistriestostudythefunctionsofEnglisheuphemism.Thethesisincludesthreeparts.Firstly,itt
3、ellsthedefinition,classificationandformationofeuphemism,whichwillletreaderscangetgeneralknowledgeofeuphemism.Next,itmainlytalksthesocialfunction,rhetoricfunctionandcommunicativefunctionofEnglisheuphemismthroughsomeinterestingexamplesinourdailylife.Thelastpa
4、rtistheconclusion.Itelaboratesthesignificanceandpurposeofwritingthispaper.Italsotellsusthatthereisalongwaytogoonthestudyofeuphemismandotherlanguagephenomenon.Keywords:Englisheuphemism,socialfunction,rhetoricfunction,communicativefunctionTheStudyontheFunctio
5、nsofEnglishEuphemism1IntroductionAbigdifferencebetweenhumanbeingsandanimalsisthathumanbeingscanuselanguagewhichisdifferentbecauseofitsdesignfeatures,suchasarbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,culturaltransmissionetc.Thoughmankindhascreatedandusedla
6、nguageforalonghistory,thestudyonlanguagemakeslittleeffort.Euphemism,aspeciallanguagephenomenonbutacommonrhetoricaldeviceattractspeople’sattentionsalot.Itiswidelyusedinourdailycommunicationandsomespecialfieldssuchasthefieldofeconomy,politics,waretc.Youmaywon
7、derwhyitissowidelyused.That’sbecauseofitsfunctions.ThenthesistriestostudythefunctionsofEnglisheuphemismtoletpeoplehaveabetterunderstandingofEnglisheuphemismanduseitproperlyintheirlife.First,weshouldknowsomethingabouteuphemism,namelythedefinition,formationan
8、dclassificationofeuphemism.1.1ThedefinitionofeuphemismEuphemism,anEnglishwordwhichderivesfromGreek.InGreek,“eu-”means“good”,“-phemism”means“speech”.Thenthewordeuphemismitselfmeans“wordofgoodspeech”.InO
