A Survey of Chinese EFL Learners’ Perception of English Euphemism 中国英语学习者委婉语使用情况调查.doc

A Survey of Chinese EFL Learners’ Perception of English Euphemism 中国英语学习者委婉语使用情况调查 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 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 University, whose lectures and courses serve as an unfailing source of knowledge and inspiration in my future study. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to show my gratitude to my friends who have faithfully supported me in every way. ABSTRACT 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 realize the significance of euphemism. Therefore, English teachers should pay attention to euphemism teaching so as to improve students cross-cultural awareness and communicative competence. In China, as far as euphemism teaching is concerned, there are no monographs or treatises. To see how well the students have grasped English euphemism, a survey was conducted among 28 college students who enrolled in Jiangsu University. The data was collected by the researcher and analyzed by SPSS 10.0 for windows. The results reveal that (1) The sexual difference in the perception of English euphemism is not significant.(2) The EFL learners can grasp the English euphemism well. (3)The English proficiency has some relationship with the perception of English euphemism The r