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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。多年來許多語言學家和學者分別從不同角度對這一語言現(xiàn)象進行研究。本文作者借鑒他們的研究成果從語言學的角度探討委婉語與語用的關(guān)系。長期以來,語言學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
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