Abstract Language in the community process, due to different circumstances and conditions, people can not directly express something, especially something make them feel painful, unpleasant,or even disgusted and embarrassed。 Therefore, they must use some vague, subtle, gentle, tactful expressions, for the purpose of exchanging ideas with appropriate expressions in an appropriate emotional atmosphere。 Euphemism is a social and cultural phenomenon。 As long as the phenomenon of taboo exists, there is a corresponding language expression of Euphemism。 Euphemism is rhetorically an important element of a broad social function including the avoidance function, politeness function, disguise function and deceptive function。75864

Keywords: Euphemism; function; application

摘要在社会语言沟通过程中，由于不同的情况和条件，人们不能直接表达一些事，尤其是令他们痛苦的，不愉快的，甚至感到厌恶和尴尬的事情。因此，他们必须使用一些模糊，含蓄，温和，委婉的表达，以达到在适当的情感氛围中用适当的表达来交流思想的目的。英语委婉语是一种社会文化现象，一个社会只要有禁忌现象存在，语言中就有相应的委婉语。委婉语在社会交往中有着广泛的功能，主要是回避功能，礼貌功能，伪装功能和欺骗功能。

毕业论文关键词：委婉语；功能；应用

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

2。1 Definition of Euphemism 1

2。2 Findings of Euphemism 1

3。 Social Function of English Euphemism 2

4。 Application of Euphemism in Different Areas 3

4。1 Euphemism about Gods, death, disease 3

4。2 Euphemism about appellations and personal affairs 5

4。3 Euphemism about international affairs 7

4。4 Euphemism about politics and business 9

5。 Conclusion 10

Works Cited 12

1。 Introduction

Euphemism is a common phenomenon in all language。 It involves all aspects in life and plays a significant role in people’s daily communication。 It is an effective language expression which aims to realize the expected effects, it is not only needed in people’s social communication, but also an important means of coordinating human relationship in language communication。 Euphemism has function of making people express thoughts more smoothly and making communication go in a relaxed way。 As English DJ said in his book Fair of Speech-The Use of Euphemism : “Without Euphemism, the world will stop operation because of conflicts and people will feel hostile to each other”。 People wish to find an appropriate means to both make mutual communication successful and the two parties pleasant。论文网

Euphemism depends largely on the social context of the speakers and writers where they feel the need to replace certain words which may prove embarrassing for particular listeners or readers in a particular situation。 In this paper, I will mainly discuss Euphemism’s Avoid Function, Politeness Function, Disguise Function, Deceptive Function and their application in social communication。

2。 Literature Review

2。1 Definition of Euphemism

“A Euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant (Webster’s online dictionary)”。 So far, the definitions of the Euphemism are a lot, and the followings are two definitions of the Euphemism from the reference books: (1) “using a statement of vague, and  making people feel happy or ambiguous, instead of the expression of an unhappy meaning or with  not enough respect (Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, Stockton and Hartmann et al。)” (2) “an indirect word or phrase that people often use to refer to something embarrassing or unpleasant, sometimes to make it seem more acceptable than it really is。” (Oxford Advanced Learner’s English Chinese Dictionary, the commercial press & Oxford University press)