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PAGE PAGE 29 A Survey of Chinese EFL Learners’ Perception of English Euphemism By Zhu Liyan Under the Supervision of Zhou Weijing Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts English Department School of Foreign Language Jiangsu June2007 I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person or material which has to a substantial extent been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at any university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgment has been made in the text. Signature: _________ Name: _ _ Date: _ 兹呈交的学位论文，是本人在导师指导下独立完成的研究成果，在论文写作过程中参考的其他个人或集体的研究成果均在文中以明确方式标明，本人依法享有和承担由此论文而产生的权利和责任。 声明人（签名）： 年 月 日 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to all those who have offered me help in the course of writing this thesis. My thanks are particularly extended to Professor Zhou Weijing-my supervisor, who has struck me with his expertise on which my dissertation is based and constructed. Im grateful to her for her kind ideas, invaluable suggestions and inspiring comments, without which, the completion of the present dissertation would have been impossible. Likewise, I express my heartfelt gratitude to all the teachers of the school of Foreign Language of Jiangsu Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to show my gratitude to my friends who have faithfully supported me in every way. ABSTRACT A survey of Chinese EFL learners’ perception of English euphemism Euphemism, which is frequently used in both English and Chinese, is a linguistic phenomenon as well as a cultural one. In a sense, without proper application of euphemism, communication would be impossible. Euphemism has become one of the major subjects of cross-cultural studies as people come to