中英死亡委婉語(yǔ)對(duì)比分析

英語(yǔ)論文編號(hào):YY025    字?jǐn)?shù):7629,頁(yè)數(shù):22

摘 　 要

      在中國(guó)和西方許多地區(qū)，委婉語(yǔ)作為一種既典型又普遍的文化現(xiàn)象擁有悠久的歷史。死亡委婉語(yǔ)是委婉語(yǔ)的重要組成部分，它在語(yǔ)言學(xué)中起著至關(guān)重要的作用。這篇論文將要在中西兩種截然不同的文化特征下對(duì)死亡委婉語(yǔ)做對(duì)比分析，并且探討在這種語(yǔ)言現(xiàn)象下深刻的文化內(nèi)涵。
這篇論文由五個(gè)部分組成：
第一部分，導(dǎo)論，簡(jiǎn)單介紹委婉于和死亡委婉語(yǔ),闡述先前多位學(xué)者對(duì)委婉語(yǔ)的研究并且給委婉語(yǔ)下定義。
第二，三，四部分是整篇論文的主體部分： 第二部分為死亡委婉語(yǔ)提供理論背景和基礎(chǔ)，主要運(yùn)用了“語(yǔ)境說(shuō)”以及美國(guó)人類學(xué)家Florence Kluckhohn’s 的“五個(gè)價(jià)值取向”。第三部分分別對(duì)中英死亡委婉語(yǔ)進(jìn)行分類。第四部分主要從三個(gè)方面即宗教，社會(huì)風(fēng)俗和文化模式對(duì)中英死亡委婉語(yǔ)進(jìn)行對(duì)比分析。
最后一部分是整篇論文的結(jié)論, 希望通過(guò)對(duì)死亡委婉語(yǔ)的對(duì)比分析，在理解自己國(guó)家文化的同時(shí)對(duì)其他國(guó)家的文化有所了解，特別是對(duì)死亡文化有所了解。

關(guān)鍵詞

死亡；委婉語(yǔ)； 文化； 差異

Abstract

       Euphemism is a typical and common cultural phenomenon in both Chinese and English communities, which has a long standing history. Death euphemism, which plays a vital role in linguistics, is an important component of euphemism. The thesis tends to make a contrastive analysis of death euphemism between Chinese and English under the two absolutely different culture characteristics and to explore the deep culture connotations under this language phenomenon.
This thesis is composed of five parts:
Part one, the introduction, presents a brief view of euphemism and death euphemism. Many previous researches of euphemism are stated and provide the definition of euphemism.
Part two, three and four are the main bodies of the whole thesis: Part two provides the theoretical backgrounds and bases of death euphemism, mainly about “the theory of the context of culture” and American anthropologist Florence Kluckhohn’s “Five Orientation”. Part three classifies Chinese death euphemism and English death euphemism respectively. Part four makes a contrastive analysis of death euphemism in Chinese and English, mainly from three aspects, namely, religions, social customs and cultural patterns.
The last part is the conclusion of the whole thesis which aims at improving our understanding of other cultures as well as our own cultures, especially death cultures.

Key Words

Death; euphemism; culture; difference

Contents

Abstract………………………………………………………………………………I
Key Words……………………………………………………………………………I
摘　要…………………………………………………………………………………II
關(guān)鍵詞…………………………………………………………………………………II
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………1
Ⅰ. Euphemism and Death Euphemism………………………………………………2
   A. Previous Studies of Euphemism………………………………………………2
   B. Definition of Euphemism………………………………………………………2
Ⅱ. Theoretical Backgrounds and Bases……………………………………………3
   A. Context of Culture ……………………………………………………………3
   B. Florence Kluckhohn’s Five Orientations………………………………………4
Ⅲ. Classification of Death Euphemism in Chinese and English……………………5
   A. Death Euphemism in Chinese…………………………………………………5
     1. Death of Religious People……………………………………………………5
     2. Death of Monarch and Common …………………………………………6
     3. Death of Others………………………………………………………………6
   B. Death Euphemism in English…………………………………………………7
     1. Death of Religious People……………………………………………………7
     2. Death of Hospital and Maritime……………………………………………8
     3. Death of Others………………………………………………………………9
Ⅳ. Contrastive Analysis of Death Euphemism in Chinese and English……………10
   A. Differences of religion………………………………………………………10
   B. Differences of Social Custom…………………………………………………11
   C. Differences of Cultural Pattern………………………………………………13
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………15
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………16
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………17