Abstract:As an indispensable and natural part of English language, English euphemisms have existed for a long time. It’s the reflection of the language of social psychology. The appearance of everything, including euphemism, has its reasons. The emergence of English euphemisms has a close relation with language taboos and religion. Since English euphemisms play an important role in social communication, they worth careful and thorough study.
Therefore, through linguistic facet, this paper tries to research into communicative function of English euphemism in certain language condition by special examples. Only when we know how to make use of Euphemism in different background and environment, we can use the proper euphemism to minimize hurt to people and to achieve the purpose of effective communication. Euphemism reflects all kinds of social mentality and social communicative function. Euphemism is also widely used in every field, so it is good for us to study English and do effective multi-cultural intercommunication.
Key Words: English euphemism; function; taboo; intercommunication
摘要:委婉语是人类语言中的一种普遍现象，其存在的历史相当悠久。是社会心理学在语言中的反映，其应用范围极其广泛。委婉语的出现是与语言禁忌息息相关的。英语委婉语在交际中起着十分重要的作用，因此值得深入的学习和研究。本文从语言学的角度，试图通过具体的例子来探究在特定的语言环境下英语委婉语的交际功能。只有认知委婉语在不同背景、不同环境下的使用方式，才能够调整好礼貌程度，从而把给对方的伤害降到最低限度，达到成功的交际目的。委婉语可以反映出各种各样的社会心理,从而也体现出了委婉语的各种社会交际功能。委婉语在各个领域都有广泛的应用，对于我们学好英语，进行有效的跨文化交际有很大的帮助。
关键字： 英语委婉语；功能；忌讳；交际
