英语委婉语在社会文化心理中的映射

外国语学院毕业论文论文题目：英语委婉语在社会文化心理中的映射学生姓名：余鹏学号：042723031专业：英语方向：英语语言文学指导教师：潘登2008年5月18日EnglishEuphemismsinSocialCulturalPsychologyAThesisSubmittedinPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsFortheB.A.DegreeinEnglishLanguageandLiteratureByYuPengUndergraduateProgramSchoolofForeignLanguagesXianningUniversitySupervisor:潘登Signature________ApprovedMay2008原创性声明本人郑重声明：所呈交的学位论文，是本人在导师的指导下，独立进行研究工作所取得的成果。除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文不含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的作品成果。对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到本声明的法律结果由本人承担。学位论文作者签名：2008年5月4日学位论文版权使用授权书本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保障、使用学位论文的规定，同意学校保留并向有关学位论文管理部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版，允许论文被查阅和借阅。本人授权省级优秀学士学位论文评选机构将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检索，可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇编本学位论文。本学位论文属于1、保密□，在_____年解密后适用本授权书。2、不保密□。（请在以上相应方框内打“√”）作者签名：年月日导师签名：年月日CONTENTS1.Introduction·············································································12.TheReflectionsofEnglishEuphemismsfromSocialCulturalPsychology···33.PsychologicalFactorsofEuphemisms··············································43.1Evasionpsychology··································································43.1.1Taboo············································································43.1.2Comfortablewords····························································53.2Politenesspsychology·······························································53.3Cosmeticpsychology································································64.TheDifferentSocialValuesofEuphemisms·······································75.Conclusion··············································································8Bibliography·············································································10Acknowledgements···································································11咸宁学院本科毕业论文：英语委婉语在社会文化心理中的映射-1-TheReflectionsofEnglishEuphemismsinSocialCulturalPsychology学生：余鹏指导教师：潘登单位：外国语学院摘要：委婉语从它诞生的那一天就带上了鲜明的社会心理标记,担负着润滑交际的重任。其产生主要归因于不同的社会心理,如忌讳﹑礼貌﹑以及政治需要的伪装或掩饰。委婉语可以说是社会文化心理的一面镜子,折射出形形色色的社会心理状态,本文从社会文化心理里的角度来简要阐述随着社会的发展,英语委婉语所映射的交际功能及其各种社会价值观念。关键词：委婉语;禁忌语;社会文化心理;社会价值Abstract：Euphemism,whichbringsasharpsocialandpsychologicalmarkersinceitsbirth，chargeswiththeheavyresponsibilityof‘LubricationCommunication’.Itsapplicationisattributedmainlytodifferentsocialpsychology,suchastaboo,politenessorpoliticalpurposeoutofdisguise.Euphemismislikeamirrorreflectingsocialpsychologyofvariouskindsrelevanttosocialissuesindifferentrespects.Withthedevelopmentofsociety,thisthesisanalyzestheapplicationofeuphemismsandthereflectionsofcommunicationfunctioninEnglishfromtheangleofsocialculturalpsychology,aswellasthevariableviewsofvalueconcepts.KeyWords:euphemism;taboo;socialculturalpsychology;socialvalues1.IntroductionLanguageisamirrorofsociallifeandhumandevelopment.Inthevocabularyofanylanguage,onefindsafocusedreflectionofthenationalcultureconcerned.Euphemism,whichisakindoflinguisticvariationaswellasasocialculturalphenomenon,istheproductoftheinteractionbetweenlinguisticvariablesandsocialvariables.Euphemism,derivedfromGreek,with“eu”asaprefixmeaning“well”or“soundingwell”and“phemism”meaning“speech”,thusthewordoriginallybearsthemeaningof“tospeakwithgoodwordsorinapleasantmanner”.Historically,euphemismoriginatedintheaccountsoftaboobymanyadventurersandanthropologists.Inearly1580’s,theBritishwriterGeorgeBluntfirstusedthewords“euphemism”andgaveitadefinitionas“agoodorfavorableinterpretationofabadword.”Mencken,theAmericanlinguist,wroteabookTheAmericanLanguagein1936,whichdevotedaparttotheanalysisofhundredsEnglisheuphemismonthebasisofAmericanhassocietyandhistoricalculturalbackground.In1981,HughRawson,aBritishlinguist,compiledadictionarynamedADictionaryofEuphemismandOtherDouble-talk,whoseprefaceisveryvaluablebecauseofitsextensivediscussionofthedefinition,classification,咸宁学院本科毕业论文：英语委婉语在社会文化心理中的映射-2-featuresanddomainsofeuphemism.Theyear1983sawthepublicationofanotherclassiconeuphemism:KindWords-AThesaurusofEuphemisms,compiledbyAmericanscholarsNeamanandSilver,whichsupplieddetailedinterpretationoftheeuphemizeditems,andatthesametimedescribetheoriginal,developmentofeuphemism.In1985,D.J.EnrightpublishedabookFairofSpeech,theUseofEuphemism,whichisacollectionofmanypiecesofessaysconcerningthistopic,eachonlydiscussingtheuseofeuphemisminonespecificdomain.Thisbookprovidessomecluesforthestudyofeuphemismthoroughly.Fromtheseventiestotheeightiesinthe20thcentury,westerntheoryofsociolinguisticswasintroducesintoChinainsuccession.Inspiredbythenewlyintroducedtheory,someChinesescholarsbegantostudyeuphemismintheperspectiveofsocialfunctions.ThemostfamousofthemwasChenYuan，whopublishedabookSociolinguisticsin1983,devotingaspecialchaptertothestudyandanalysisofeuphemism,whichnotonlydiscussedthehistoricalandsocialbackgroundofeuphemism,butalsorevealedthenatureofthissocialphenomenon.Euphemismisaproperlanguagestylethatpeoplepursueinsocialcommunicationinordertoreachanidealcommunicationeffect.Euphemismcanavoidandsoftentaboosandsensitiveorawkwardtopics.Ineverystageandeachnation,euphemismsarewidelyadopted.Thus,thecreationandusageofeuphemismisacommonphenomen