Death Euphemisms Between Chinese and English: A Contrastive Analysis 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
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different cultures‚ histories and social systems‚ habits of Chinese and English address terms are different. It is of great help for English language learners to communicate with understanding these differences. In this dissertation‚ address terms are divided into the name address‚ kinship terms‚ social address and reference terms. Chinese address terms system is complex and detailed‚ and includes hundreds of address terms. While English address terms system is relatively simple‚ general‚ and ambiguous
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The study on comparison and translation between English and Chinese Euphemisms Gao Hongqin Southwest University Abstract: Euphemism is one kind of figures of speech and it refers to the substitution of mild or vague or roundabout expression for harsh or direct one. As an indispensable and natural part of language‚ euphemism has been arousing wide interest. Achievements in the study of euphemism from the perspectives of rhetoric‚ semantics‚ pragmatics and sociolinguists
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body plays an important part not only in our life but also in the process of cognition. According to Colins Cobuild English Language Dictionary‚ human body is defined as “all their physical parts‚ including their head‚ limbs‚ flesh‚ and organs.” In anthropology‚ human body can be categorized into four parts and they are respectively head‚ neck‚ truck‚ and limb. Both in Chinese and English‚ human body words contain a great number of metaphorical phenomena. 1.2 The Theoretical Framework of This Thesis
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Discussion on the origin of English Euphemism and its social communicative function Posted:2008-5-22 17:06:00 views:14621 [Abstract] Euphemism‚ as a common linguistic phenomenon in world culture‚ is widely used in every social class and field. English euphemism‚ as one of many euphemisms existing in the world‚ has its own deep origin‚ which include both the religious origin and the historical‚ literary origin. This thesis will try to discuss the origin of English euphemism from every aspect of
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differences in Malay language and other language form that may be found different‚ thus the name contrastive analysis. Wrapping up this paper‚ two (2) paradigm found that explained the importance of contrastive analysis and the similarities as well as differences in Malay language with other languages‚ in this case English. Questions would be ask by anyone regarding the rational of using contrastive analysis in learning language and why it is vital for us to keep practicing it when in the end‚ all that
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A Study on English Euphemism Euphemism is defined in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English(1978)as¡°(an example of)the use of a pleasanter£¬less direct name for something thought to be unpleasant.¡± The New Edition of the Oxford Concise Dictionary (1976) defines euphemism as ¡°Substitution of mild or vague or roundabout expression for harsh or direct one; expression that substituted.¡± Euphemism is to use a polite or vague word or phrase used to replace another word or phrase that is thought
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Contrastive Analysis and Second Language Acquisition Contrastive Analysis was used extensively in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the 1960s and early 1970s‚ as a method of explaining why some features of a target language were more difficult to acquire than others. According to the behaviourist theories prevailing at the time‚ language learning was a question of habit formation‚ and this could be reinforced or impeded by existing habits. Therefore‚ the difficulty in mastering certain
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Contrastive analysis Volker Gast 1 Introduction Narrowly defined‚ contrastive analysis investigates the differences between pairs (or small sets) of languages against the background of similarities and with the purpose of providing input to applied disciplines such as foreign language teaching and translation studies. With its largely descriptive focus contrastive linguistics provides an interface between theory and application. It makes use of theoretical findings and models of language
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Advanced writing April 24‚ 2009 Contrastive analysis: Prosperity‚ Decline and new Hopes of revival It should be mentioned that the history of foreign language teaching is so complicated. The complexities are the outcome of the rise of the assumptions of so many theories‚ approaches‚ methods and hypotheses that dominated this field ‚ especially beginning from1940s and up till now. Today there are innumerable assumptions for approaches and methods that relate to language learning and
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