社会生活中英语委婉语的语用浅析_英语论文

A Brief Pragmatic Study of the English Euphemism in Social Life

摘要

英语委婉语是英语语言的一个重要组成部分，它广泛地存在于社会生活的各个方面。使用英语委婉语可以有效地避免交际中的不开心、不礼貌和尴尬以达到一个相对理想的交际状态。本文将主要从语用角度对社会生活中的英语委婉语进行分析。文章主要讨论了英语委婉语的两种最主要的来源方式，即违反合作原则和遵守礼貌原则。本文还简要地研究了社会生活中的英语委婉语的语用功能，使人们能够对英语委婉语有一个更深刻的认识。

关键词：委婉语，来源，合作原则，礼貌原则，语用功能

Abstract

English euphemism is an important part of English language which widely exists in different aspects of social life. The use of English euphemism can effectively avoid unpleasantness, impoliteness as well as embarrassment in communication in order to approach to a relatively ideal communication. The euphemism in social life will be analyzed in this paper from the pragmatic point of view. It aims to discuss the two main origins of the English euphemism, namely the violation of the Cooperative Principles and the accordance of the Politeness Principles. It also briefly studies the pragmatic functions of the English euphemism in social life to make people have a better understanding of the English euphemism.

Key words: euphemism, origin, the Cooperative Principles, the Politeness Principles, pragmatic function