浅谈英语委婉语和伊拉克战争.docxVIP

? ? 浅谈英语委婉语和伊拉克战争 ? ? [Abstract] Euphemism is a common linguistic phenomenon in the global culture. It plays an important part in our daily communication. As an indispensable and natural part of English language, English euphemism has been arousing wide interest by linguists and scholars from different perspectives. In the field of politics and war, using euphemism has become a strategy to lubricate the communication. This paper first briefly introduces the characteristics of the euphemism: universality, culture specificity, re-symbolism, obscurity and beautification; the communicative functi