Features of Euphemism and Its Social Influences 委婉语的特征及其社会影响.docVIP

大学应用技术学院 2010级学士学位论文 Features of Euphemism and Its Social Influences 委婉语的特征及其社会影响 专 业：英 语 学 号：1016411053 姓 名：朱璇 导 师：曹俊雯 2013.12 Acknowledgements Many people have made invaluable contributions, both directly and indirectly to my research. I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. I gratefully acknowledge the help of my supervisor Cao Junwen. I do appreciate her professional instructions, encouragement, patience and comments during this thesis writing. Without her pushing me ahead, the completion of my thesis would be impossible. High tribute shall be paid to Bu Ping, whose profound knowledge of English trigger my love for this beautiful language and whose earnest attitude tells me how to learn English. At the same time, I am also grateful to Gao Mingqiang and Sun Shaohua for providing me with valuable advice and access to the related resources on my thesis. Last my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who help me work out my problems during the hard course of the thesis. My heart swells with gratitude to all the people who helped me. Abstract How to maintain social relationship? Language communication is an important way. Language is the carrier of culture, a mirror of national culture. People often use the indirect or pleasant expressions in the place of those considered unpleasant, rude or offensive words in communication. Euphemism is a pleasant replacement for an objectionable word that has scornful connotations. It is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but also a kind of social phenomenon and cultural phenomenon.We all need to communicate in our daily life and people will use different words to convey their ideals and thoughts because of d