英汉委婉语交际功能的对比研究

A Comparative Study of the Communicative Functions of English and Chinese Euphemisms

委婉语是人类社会中普遍存在的一种语言现象,是为了达到理想交际效果而采用的一种策略,具有重要的交际功能。委婉语主要有三个交际功能,即“避讳”功能,“礼貌”功能以及“掩饰”功能。文章从跨文化对比的角度出发,从以上三个方面分析对比英汉委婉语的交际功能。

As a universal language phenomenon, euphemisms are strategies designed to achieve ideal communicative effect and have three main communicative functions, which are taboo - avoiding function, politeness function and deception function. This paper is an attempt to make a comparative study of the communicative functions of English and Chinese euphemisms.