英语委婉语使用的语用制约浅议

Pragmatic Restriction of English Euphemism Application

委婉语是语言交际中人们协调彼此之间关系的一个重要手段;合作原则和礼貌原则则是人际交往中确保交际成功的十分重要的语用原则。从语用学角度,讨论合作原则、礼貌原则与英语委婉语之间的关系,论证了英语委婉语使用的语用学动机。

Euphemism is an important device for people to coordinate the relationship between each other in language communication and cooperative principle and politeness principle are the important pragmatic principles to assure the suecess of communication. This paper has studied, from the view of pragmatics, the relationship between cooperative principle. politeness principle, and English euphemism to demonstrate the oragmatie motivation of using English eupnhemism