委婉语关联理论研究.pdf

的认知效果所抵消。 第四章探寻委婉语与原语言符号、委婉语与认知环境、委婉语与社会背景之间的相关 也是委婉语的创造及运用中的 因素。介种相关因，既作为交际双方认知环境中的互明部分， 制约机制。当委婉语被运用时，相关因素增加了相关假设，并为听话人提供了具体的处理指 示。L}-- 最后，探讨本研究的结论对些些xWFac处W 的启发 关健词:委婉语亏关联理论i Abstract Euphemismareroundaboutexpressions,substitutingindirect,vague,pleasant andmildwordsformoreexplicit,offensiveones,withthepurposeofavoidingtaboos, showingeleganceoravoidinghurtingotherpeoplesfeelings.Itisacommon phenomenoninhumanlanguageandalsoapragmaticstrategyofharmonizing interpersonalrelationshipandsmoothingsocialcommunication.AsRawsonputs认 euphemismsareembeddedsodeeplyinourlanguagethatfewofus,eventhosewho pridethemselvesonbeingplain-spoken,evergothroughadaywithoutthem. Euphemismsaresowidelyusedinsocialcommunicationthatstudiesonthemat homeandabroadhavemadeconsiderableachievements. Thesestudies二 madeunderthescopeofrhetoric,lexicography,semantics, sociolinguistics,psycholinguistics,FuzzyTheoryandpragmatics,andsoon.Butfew researcheshavebeenconductedintothescopeofcognitivepragmatics,especially withintheframeworkofRelevanceTheory.Sothepreviousstudieshavenotunfolded thecognitiveprocesswheneuphemismsareused. Thisthesisisatentativestudythatfocusesonexploringthehumancognitive processwheneuphemismsareused,byinvestigatingthepracticeandinterpretationof euphemismsinthetheoreticframeworkofRelevanceTheory. Thisthesisconsistsoffourchapters. ChapterOnemakesanaccountofthehistory,definitionandclassificationof euphemismasgroundwork.Manylinguistscontributetothedefinitionofeuphemism, whilethisthesisattemptstodefineeuphemismunderthescopeofRelevanceTheory. Rawsondivideseuphemismsintotwogeneraltypes一positiveandnegative,which failtocovertheneutralonesthatdonotinvolvesemanticconversion.Asthe groundworkforthefurtherdiscussionofthisstudy,euphemismsareclassifiedinto normativeandabnormativeeuphemisms ChapterTwo,servingasatheoreticfoundationofthisstudy