从委婉语的应用看中英社会文化价值

To Compare Chinese and English Social Cultural Value from the Use of Euphemism

委婉语既是一种语言现象,也是一种社会现象和文化现象。随着现代社会的需要,委婉语也在不断“推 陈出新”,其中不少呈现出鲜明的时代特征,同时委婉语的语义也随着时间的推移,有一个指称意义转向另一个指称 意义。中英委婉语之间存在着等值现象,也存在着文化差异。

Euphemism is a phenomenon of both language and society and culture. With the development of society,euphemism is also a process of weeding through the old and bring forth the new among which appears a striking features of the times. Meanwhile,the semantics of euphemism is changing from one direction to another. There are equivalent phenomenon and cultural discrepancy between Chinese and English euphemism.