A Cross-cultural study on Death Euphemisms of Chinese and English开题报告

 2022-07-30 14:48:23

1. 研究目的与意义

As a rhetorical device, euphemisms are an important part of language. At the same time, they are also a common linguistic phenomenon whose appearances and functions are closely connected to the social cultural life. As the economic globalization deepens, cross-cultural communication becomes more and more important. Therefore, it is necessary for us to master the use of euphemisms so that we can avoid some mistakes and embarrassing moments in our talk with English speakers. Although there are many former studies on euphemisms, the specialized studies on death euphemisms are insufficient both in the quantity and quality. As an important part of euphemism, death euphemism plays a major role in our social cultural lives. This paper investigates into the death euphemisms of Chinese and English by contrastive analysis. The author wants to enrich the knowledge of this kind of field and get a deeper comprehension of languages and cultures.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

This paper focuses on classification and expression of death euphemisms between Chinese and English. Through the contrastive analysis, it tries to find some similarities and differences of death euphemisms between Chinese and English. To have a better understanding of the death euphemisms, this paper will also investigate into their cultural backgrounds which lead to the differences. Through the study on this topic, the author wants to enrich the knowledge of death euphemisms and to have a better understanding of the relationship between culture and language.

3. 国内外研究现状

1.Major Studies Abroad

Early studies on euphemisms in foreign countries are mainly conducted in three aspects: sociology, anthropology and ethnography. British litterateur George Blunt became the first person who gave out definition of the euphemisms. Then there were a lot of scholars starting to study euphemisms. In the early 1960s, when foreign scholars were studying the relationships between language and society, they found that euphemisms played a really important role in this course and did a large number of researches. The representative book of this time was Totem and Taboo written by Sigmund Freud. He gives a reasonable explanation to the appearance of taboos. Another book Taboo, Truth and Religion deeply studied the appearance, classification, effect and function of taboos. With the development of sociolinguistics, a lot of research results have been achieved. Among them, R.A.Hudson’s Sociolinguistics(1980) made a more detailed description to the taboo language’s definition, significance and function. An Introduction to Language and Society(1983) and Ronald Wardhaugh’s An Introduction to Sociolinguistics(1986) made an introduction to taboos combined with euphemism under the social background. Until the 1990s, the study of euphemisms was still popular and a large number of books and articles were published at that time such as Don’t do it: A Dictionary of the Forbidden which introduced how the euphemisms and communication methods changed with time in different social background and countries. In addition, some articles on euphemisms have been published in academic journals of linguistics. The Do’s and Taboos Around the World gives a detailed introduction to various etiquette in communication which has become a guidebook for people''s communication. In recent years, the researches on euphemisms has become more practical, such as the frequency and distribution of people’s speaking of euphemisms, what are the most commonly used euphemisms and the significance of taboos in psychological research. While studying the pragmatics of euphemisms, scholars also pay attention to the cultural problems reflected in them.

2.Major studies at Home.

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4. 计划与进度安排

1. Introduction

2. The Use and Expression of Death Euphemisms.

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