英语毕业论文A Comparative Analysis of Death Euphemisms Between Chinese and English.docVIP

PAGE PAGE ii 本科生毕业论文（设计） 题　　目 A Comparative Analysis of Death Euphemisms Between Chinese and English 姓　　名 学号 202110202110 院　　系 外国语学院 专　　业 英语 指导教师 职称 副教授 曲阜师范大学杏坛学院教务处制 A Comparative Analysis of Death Euphemisms Between Chinese and English A Thesis Submitted to College of Foreign Languages Xin Qufu In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts By Zhao Yaqi Under the Supervision of Peng Fang ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My profound gratitude goes first and foremost to thank my tutor—Peng Fang, who has read my drafts meticulously and offered me academic and constructive suggestions on composing the paper. Without her help, the thesis could never have been brought to its present appearance. I am also extremely grateful to the teachers of my undergraduate courses whose invaluable advices are indispensable to the completion of this thesis. Their encouragement and help are worthy of high acknowledgments. My special thanks must be paid to those students who kindly and seriously wrote the compositions, which were used as the corpus in this study. I also give my sincere gratitude to my roommates who offered me valuable advice and hearty encouragement in the process of writing this thesis. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the writers whose works I quoted in this thesis. 摘 要 委婉语作为人类社会中的普遍现象，有着悠久的历史。并在人们的日常生活中起着重要的作用。随着禁忌语的出现，委婉语也应运而生。作为委婉语的重要组成部分，关于死亡的委婉语在当今社会得到越来越多的重视。本文试图通过中英死亡委婉语的对比来探究深层次的文化内涵。第一部分讲述委婉语的定义及前人所作的研究。第二部分提供委婉语的理论背景。三四部分具体阐述中英死亡委婉语的不同及出现不同的原因。本文还结合以上发现提出如何在跨文化交际中正确使用委婉语的策略。 关键词：死亡；委婉语；对比分析；文化 ABSTRACT Euphemism is a widely common phenomenon in human society which has a long history and plays an important role in people’s daily life. With the emergence of taboos, euphemism came into existence in response. As an important part of euphemisms, d