A Study of the Pragmatic Functions of English Euphemism开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义

Euphemism is a kind of ' people with many twists and turns in the process of linguistic communication often use to the skills of the language ', it is a more subtle, subtle way to express a kind of can not directly say ' embarrassing ' words, one meaning more of its cover or polite or taboo. It is not only a common phenomenon of social language, is also a country, a nation, a regional culture of civilization, a symbol of progress,in the process of social interaction and communication between people, euphemism shows great charm of language.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

abstract 1key words 1

1. introduction 12. a brief introduction to english euphemism 22.1 the definition of english euphemism 22.2 the origins of english euphemism 32.3 the classification of euphemisms 42.4 the significance of english euphemism 5

3. two pragmatic theories and english euphemism 53.1 politeness principle and english euphemism 63.2 face-saving theory and english euphemism 7

3. 国内外研究现状

In 1981, birth, symbolizes the great achievements have been made in euphemism research. In 1983, American scholar Neaman and Sliver； D.J.Enright； in 1985, 1991, Allen and Burridge have published a monograph on euphemism, made a more systematic explanation of euphemism, provides direction and the research direction of very valuable for later.

4. 计划与进度安排

Main content:from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, understanding of the history and development of euphemism, through the research of euphemism.Research methods:1, reference, sorting, summary of euphemism data.Analysis of the characteristics and connotation of the . Find out the representative of euphemism, and do a lot of cognition and extract 2,,summary information, and find out the key points and examples will be discussed. Carefully follow the angles to ask questions, and solve the problem in the process of discussion. Thinking: the way to each other, common to find the euphemism to inspect the domestic and foreign general euphemism expression. To illustrate the problem with a lot of examples. And find the problem, to solve the problem

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