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| A Pragmatic Study of English Euphemism in The Desperate Housewives Abstract Euphemism, a common linguistic phenomenon, act a pivotal part in interpersonal relationship. So it is also regarded as “lube ” in human communication. Linguistic researchers have studied it from different aspects. Great achievements have been made. However, the earlier studies mostly focus on dictionary compiling rhetoric, semantics and syntactic. With the development of our society, people have an increasing need in language expression, so the use to euphemism is not only limited in words and sentences, but the practical usage. The significance of this thesis is that it analyzes English euphemism from pragmatic context, taking the context of situation and the context of culture as the basis, selecting some representative dialogues of Desperate Housewives as analyzing objects, to preceding a systematical analysis; the practical significance is that the analyzing conclusion can be of reference for foreign language learners. Key words : euphemism pragmatic study the desperate housewives Contens Acknowledgements I Abstract(English) II Abstract(chinese) III 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background of the study 1 1.2 Significance of the thesis 2 1.3 Organization of the thesis 2 2. Literature review 3 2.1 The definition of English euphemism 3 2.2 Previous studies on euphemis 4 2.2.1 Euphemism studies at abroad 4 2.2.2 Euphemism studies at home 5 2.3 The classification of English euphemism 6 2.3.1 Positive euphemism and negative euphemism 6 2.3.2 Traditional euphemism and stylistic euphemism 7 2.3.3 Other classifications of euphemism 8 3. A case study of English euphemism in The Desperate Housewives 9 3.1 The Desperate Housewives and Euphemism 9 3.1.1 Frequent Use of Euphemism 10 3.1.2 Reasons For Characters’ Preference for Euphemism 11 3.2 The Application of English Euphemism 12 3.2.1 Lexical Application of Euphemism 12 3.2.3 Rhetorical Application of Euphemism 16 3.3 Pragmatic Functions of Euphemism 20 3.3.1 The Function of Taboo 21 3.3.2 The Function of Politeness 22 3.3.3. The Function of Tactical 23 3.3.4 The Function of Humor 25 4. Conclusion 26 4.1 The summary of the study 27 4.2 The limitation of the study 27 References 29 |
