从象似性角度分析《摩登家庭》中的委婉语

Analysis of Euphemism in Modern Family from the Perspective of Iconicity

委婉语作为一种常见的语言现象,可以达到避免尴尬、化解矛盾的效果,而象似性作为认知语言学的一个重要理论,具有强大的解释力。本文选取经典情景喜剧《摩登家庭》中的委婉语作为语料,运用象似性理论进行分析。

As a common linguistic phenomenon,euphemism can avoid awkwardness and resolve conflicts.And iconicity,which is an important theory of cognitive linguistics,has a strong explanatory power.This paper selects ‘Modern Family',a classic sitcom,as the corpus of euphemism and applies iconicity theory to analyze it.