AcknowledgementsIamindebtedtoouruniversityforprovidingmewithsuchapreciousopportunityofwritingthisthesistoconcludemyfouryears’undergraduateeducation.Inthecourseofwriting,IhavegainedmoreknowledgeandenlightenmentthanIexpected.Iwouldliketoexpressmymostsincereappreciationtomyrespectedsupervisor,Mrs.GaoYanmei,anamiableandknowledgeableteacher,whopatientlyandpainstakinglyfulfilledthetaskofreading,critiquing,shapingandpolishingallthepreliminarydraftsofthisthesis.Inaddition,mythanksalsogotomyfamilyaswellastheclassmateswhohaveofferedmehelpandsuggestions.AbstractTaboosandeuphemismsarelanguagephenomenathatarisefromsocialneeds.Taboosarethewordsthatweshouldavoidusingbecauseoftraditionalhabitsorsocialcustoms.Toavoidtaboosorexpressindirectly,peoplechoosetousethewordswhicharemildandunobjectionable.Thesewordsarecalledeuphemisms.WhetherinChinaorwesterncountries,taboosandeuphemismshavetheirdistinctiveculturalcharacteristics.Euphemismsandtaboosaccumulaterichlyculturalconnotations.Inthispaper,oneuphemism,researchescarryoutfromthetraditionaleuphemism,culturalvaluesanddifferentwaysofthinking.Taboosarestudiedfromthereligioustaboos,topictaboos,colortaboosandotheraspects.Euphemismsandtaboosareimportantpartsoflanguage.Rationalusingofeuphemismsandavoidingtabooscanmakethecommunicationbetweenpeoplebecomemoreharmonious.Thispaperusesthemethodsofsummarization,comparison,literatureresearchandsoontoexploretheculturehiddenbehindwordssothatpeoplecancommunicatewitheachothermoresmoothly.KeyWords：communication;euphemismsandtaboos;reasonsfordifferences;comparison摘要禁忌语和委婉语都是语言现象，是因为社会的需要而产生的。因为传统习惯或社会风俗等原因，需要避免使用的词语或的行为，我们称它为禁忌。为了避免禁忌或表达不雅的事物或不宜直接提到的对象而采用的婉转而温和的语言我们称之为委婉语。无论是在中国还是西方国家，禁忌语和委婉语都有其鲜明的文化特征。委婉语和禁忌语具有丰富的文化内涵。本篇论文中，在委婉语方面，将从传统委婉语，文化价值观和思考方式的不同来展开研究。在禁忌语方面，将从宗教禁忌，话题禁忌，颜色禁忌等方面来进行研究。委婉语和禁忌语都是语言的重要组成部分，合理使用委婉语和避免禁忌语可以使人们之间的交流变得更加融洽。本文运用了归纳总结法，对比法，文献研究法等方法来探索隐藏在语言背后的文化，使得人们能够更加顺畅的进行交流。关键词：交流；委婉语和禁忌语；差异产生的原因；比较ContentsTOC\o"1-3"\u1.Introduction12.TheoreticalBackground.............................................................................................12.1OnEuphemism12.2OnTaboos23.RelationshipbetweenLanguageandCulture34.TheCultureDiscrepanciesHiddenbehindEuphemismsandTaboos44.1DifferentAspectsofEuphemisms44.1.1TraditionalEuphemisms44.1.2CulturalValues54.1.3Thinkingmodels64.2Classification................74.3DifferentAspectsofTaboos..................................................................................84.3.1ReligiousTaboos............................................................................................84.3.2CallingTaboos................................................................................................94.3.3TopicTaboos.................................................................................................104.4.4NumberTaboos.............................................................................................104.3.5ColorTaboos105.Conclusion11Bibliography12TheDiscrepanciesbetweenChineseCultureandWester...
