[Abstract]Language communication is an important method to maitain social relationship,so people often use the indirect or pleasant expressions in the plance of those cnsidered unpleasant,and rude in communication.It is not only a Linguistic phenomenon,but also a kind of social phenomenon and cultural phenomenon.It iseuphemism.Euphemism is widely used in every social class and field ,and it has it’s own deep religions origin and historical origin.Euphemism plays a very impantant role in people’s social communicatin.This paper will expound the communicative function of English euphemism from three aspecte:evasive function,courtesy function,disguise function.And also expound the importance of it in social communication.To know these could help us to understand the western culure and promote it’s social inflence in the internatinal development.
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1.Introduction
Euphemism is originally from Greek,dog clothes meaning”speak with good words”.”eu” means”well or sonuding well”;”pheme”means”speech”.It’s definition in oxford English Dictionary is”use of pleasant,mild,or indirect words or phrases in place of more accurate or direct one.Euphemism is a culturalphenonmenon as well as a linguistic concept.It aims to avoid offensiveness during the communication.It’sa figure of rhetoric by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is described or referred to by a milder term.As a linguistic concept,it has close relationships with the western culture,and it truly reflects the life and values of English people and their history.It is a culturel phenomenon as well as a linguistic concept.It’s deeply rooted in social life and has a great influence on social communications.The communication without euphemism is unimginable. It’s used like lubrication,which makes the communication go on smoothly.This thesis will have an overview of the origin of English euphemism and state its social communicative function.The study of it can help us understand the western culture and promote the international,negotiations.So there is a great need for use to study English euphemism,including:its origin,its social function and the important of social function in international negotiations.
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2. The definitions of English euphemism
2.1 In the process of communication,maple story mesos the unsuitable or too direct words will make peole feel uncomfortable ,embarrassed,even angry.Then there is a great need for us to use a tactful way to express emotion,exchange ideas.That’s to say,we need to use euphemism.
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2.2 The word”euphemism”was derived from the Greek word”euphemism”,wow gold wedding dresses which means”fair speech”.The prefix”eu”means”good,sound well”and”pheme”means”saying”or”speech”.And thus the literal meaning of”euphemism”is”to speak with good words or in a pleasant manner”.That’s to say,euphemism is used as an alteenative to unpleasant expression.”In Webster’Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language is’he substitution of a mild,indirect,or vague expression for one thought substituted’Rawson Rlunt,a British writer,defined euphemism as’a good favorable internation of a bad word’”[1]Encyclopedia Britannica(1994)also defines euphemism as’a figure of speech in which something of an unpleasant,distressing or indelicate nature is described in less offensive terms’” [2]
2.3 The speakers use words or expressions as aprotective shield against the anger or disapproval of natural or supernational things.
3.The origins and social culture influences of English euphemism
world of warcraft gold3.1 The religions origin of English euphemismworld of warcraft gold
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The earliest Englishi euphemisms comefrom’tabo’.world of warcraft power leveling I t indicates evasive language or anction.In primitive society,people can’t explain such things as ailment and some supernatural phenomenon.”people have confusion between the name of things and things themselves.The name is viewed as an extension of things.Justas the idiom says’Speak of devil and he apears’.Naturally the words or phrases related to such things became taboos’[4]In the ancient time,people had blind faith in ghing world of warcraft power leveling
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