A Contrast Between Chinese English Euphemism With Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

Language and culture are closely connected. When it comes to language, every nation and every culture is distinctively different. Euphemism, which satisfies the essential requirements such as taboo, politeness, concealment and self-protection, is a kind of tactic widely used in our day-to-day life. Meanwhile, being a crucial part in social intercourse, euphemism usually reflects social mentality and cultural connotation. In order to help students learn Chinese well, euphemism teaching is of vital importance.There are five parts in this passage. The first part is general introduction, which mainly illustrates current situation relating to the application of euphemism and the definition of research object. The second part elaborates similarities between Chinese euphemism and the English one from three aspects (i.e. taboo, elegance and politeness). And then in terms of form of address, concealment and racial discrimination, it analyses the differences between them. Finally, the passage summaries both similarities and differences between Chinese euphemism and the English one. The third part analyses some representative words and contrast English euphemism with Chinese one. There are two aspects in fourth part, one is to illustrate the importance of euphemism by studying some examples, another is to do some research by analyzing HSK corpus in Beijing Language and Culture University. The fifth part is to provide readers with specific teaching strategies and methods.Language is the carrier of culture. Euphemism is a mirror which reflects social culture. The main purpose of this passage is to deepen our understanding of the differences between Chinese and English. By doing so we can achieve the cross-culture communication and put forward some effective way of Chinese courses for foreigners.