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espread. People to avoid direct that toilet, in English, there are many euphemisms on the toilet. power room, toilet, restroom, convenience, men or men's, women / ladies or women's / ladies'. Also, people go to the bathroom toilet also tactfully expressed. Anglo-American people often say to wash one's hand, to power one's nose, to go somewhere, to answer the call of nature and so on. No matter what culture, people are looking forward to peace, health, good luck, but hard to avoid illness and death, disability, crime, the unfortunate occurrence. In response, people will feel depressed, sad, taboo. Euphemism is conducive to regulating the expression of people's psychological state, relaxed atmosphere. Death in a range of Euphemisms: The old man died. Sentence to say about as: The old man has gone to the heaven; The old man has gone to a better world; The old man has gone to another world ;Psychological adjustment function:The old man paid his debt to nature ; The old man went out of the world . Disease, disaster, have a corresponding Euphemisms: a venereal disease (, can be described as a social disease. Cancer, can be said to terminal illness. acne can be described as problem skin.
In the education of students, teachers sometimes use euphemisms instead of the positive and negative evaluation, so students can maximize the protection of self-esteem, so that students maintain a good learning attitude. Compare: He lies. He has difficulty distinguishing between imaginary and factual information. He cheats. He needs help in learning to adhere to rules and standards of fair play. The student is obtuse. The student can do better with help.
In some social form, the large gap between rich and poor, the work of distinction or divided, sometimes with the semantic euphemism rose to achieve psychological balance, reduce the level distance. Such as: sanitary engineers, sanitation engineer that garbage cleaner, garbage collector; with barber beautician that the use of euphemism can make human language twists and turns witty, fun, witty humor, mildly in the view in frank, modest in see fortitude with irony.
2.2 The Reason of Euphemism's Development
Euphemism evolved from taboo. On the early stage of civilization, the level of productivity is very low, and the society backward in science and culture. People believe that the language is the same as language things, it has an extraordinary power and it is the roots of all of happiness and misfortune. In order to insure a safe and happy life, people are aware of putting taboo into practice. For example: Chinese feudal dynasty emperor's name is a taboo, courtiers and common people are prohibited the use of emperor's name directly. Anglo-American and other Western countries avoid number 13. According to "Bible," recorded in the "Last Supper", Judas, who betrayed Jesus, is the 13th people on the table. Therefore, the number 13 is a major culprit. As a result, there are no 13 room hotel, dinner to avoid the 13, the construction of buildings 13 stories and so on. There is a saying in English: the need is the mother of invention. Euphemism is inseparable from the human production of its needs. American scholars DTE nright said: "If there is no euphemism, the functioning of the world to stop because of friction, earth will be filled with hatred."

III. Euphemism's Function in Social Communication
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