英语中Euphemism语用功能和语义真值研究

A Study of the Pragmatic Function & Semantic Truth-Value of Euphemism in English

世界上每一个国家、每一个民族、每一种语言,都有自己独特的委婉语。随着社会、经济和语言的发展,委婉语的数目之多和用途之广,是很难用语言进行描述的。委婉语可以反映一个国家、一个民族的文明程度;可以调节人们的思想感情;可以平衡人们的心里状态;可以掩盖事实的真相。委婉语的运用如此广泛,迫使我们对它的语义真值进行深入中肯的分析和研究。

Each country or each nation or each language has a wide variety of euphemisms. With the growth in society, economy and language, the number and the function of euphemism are beyond description. Euphemism symbolizes the civilization of a country or a nation. It can be employed to control one＇s emotion and thought, to balance one＇s psycbokogy and to obscure the truth of facts. It is so widely used that we＇ 11 have to make a careful analysis and a deep study of its truth- value in semantics.