Euphemism,as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon,plays a significant role in literary translation,embodying the subtleties and complexities of cultural nuances.The translation of literary works,especially those rich ...
Diplomatic language is one of the important diplomatic methods used by countries to achieve foreign policy goals.Based on the characteristics of China’s diplomatic language,this paper starts with the introduction of ...
The word“euphemism”comes from the Greek,eu--means“good”,and–pheme-,“speech”or“saying”,and together it means literally“to speak with good words or in a pleasant manner”.Euphemism,as a cultural phenomenon as ...
Context is the objective environment in which people communicate in words and convey information with each other. Context is the basis of implicature inference of euphemisms. The paper explores the role of context in ...
My thesis attempts to analyze linguistic realization of euphemism in business correspondence and negotiation. Numerous books have been published to offer guidelines for business correspondence and negotiation.
This paper reports on a pragmatic analysis of euphemism from the perspective of RM. Taking the British drama, Downton Abbey, as the corpus, the study found that RMT is applicable to analyze the strategic use of euphem...
Euphemism is a kind of inoffensive expression employed for some taboo topics.This paper,based on daily examples,analyzes its motivation and usage.From these analyses,readers will understand how euphemism emerges and w...
Taboos refer to words that people can’t, dare not or are unwilling to speak with. Due to the growing economy, more and more chance has been given to Chinese and westerns in cross-cultural exchanges. Different Taboos ...
Euphemism is used to increase the charm and quality of the products in advertisements by using their pragmatic functions rather than convey some meanings. This thesis focuses on the characteristics of euphemism, and e...
English taboos refer to certain words, expressions and topics that should be totally or partially prohibited in people’s social interaction. This paper aims to analyze English taboos’origin and categories as well as...