美学语言学视角下的汉、英、日委婉语

Euphemism in Chinese,English and Japanese from the Perspective of Aesthetic Linguistics

本文从美学语言学的视角对比分析汉、英、日委婉语,发现汉、英、日委婉语在容貌、身材、生理缺陷、性、疾病、死亡和排泄方面有共同的审美意识,而在年老和集体个体审美观方面却具有各自独特的审美意识。

The paper makes a contrastive study of euphemism in Chinese, English and Japanese from the perspective of Aesthetic Linguistics. We find that they have common aesthetic consciousness in one＇s appearance, figure, physiological defect, sex, disease, death and excretion, ere and special aesthetic consciousness in old age and concept of individualism and collectivism.