The Study Of The Euphemism In "Official Exposure"

Officialdom Exposure reveal the decadent social conditionwith the unique style in the late Qing Dynasty, and reflect thespecial political, economic and culture conditions.Euphemism inthe novel is rich and fit in with the theme.This paper selectsOfficialdom Exposure complied by LI Bo Yuan as the specific object,on the basis of social linguistics, pragmatics, rhetoric, euphemismand other related theory, the paper makes a detailed discussionabout the euphemism of the official,such as Classification, functionComposition,culture and so on.In classified aspect, the euphemism is classified to polite,money, death and disease, official social, social customs. The politeeuphemism can be divided into two aspects,honorific euphemismand modest euphemism.the former consists of the title words andthe other words euphemism which is honorific. The latter consistsof the title words and the other words euphemism which is modest.In constitute aspect,the paper makes a analysis of euphemismof the novel, from four aspects which are pronunciation, vocabularyor semantics, grammar and rhetoric.In functionial and cultural aspect,the paper mainly concludesthe function of the euphemism of The Official, referred to Brown and Levinson’s "face" theory and Geoffrey Leech’s politenessprinciple knowledge. It includes taboo, avoid vulgar function, politefunction, cosmetic function, humorous function etc.The fifth partmainly discuss on the values of euphemisms from the angle ofculture.This part mainly consists of the hierarchy aspect,moderation and harmony aspect, religious perspectives aspect.