英语政治委婉语的文化认知机制研究
论文作者:www.51lunwen.org论文属性:硕士毕业论文 thesis登出时间:2016-12-23编辑:lgg点击率:5098
论文字数:38646论文编号:org201612222004524337语种:英语 English地区:中国价格:$ 66
关键词:英语语言学论文身份文化总统就职演讲
摘要:本文是英语语言学论文,本文基于前人的研究,以美国总统就职演讲为语料,试图探索在特定文化背景下政治演讲中委婉语背后的转喻认知机制。本文主要运用 Radden, G. & K?vecses, Z.的转喻理论。
Chapter One Introduction
Political
Euphemisms are deeply rooted in the culture so that their emergence is never an accident. As one of people’s important cognitive machanisms, metonymy mechanism and specific cultural backgrounds influence the interpretation of the meanings of political euphemisms together. Besides, by analyzing the users of political euphemisms, we can better understand the social contexts. The formation of political euphemisms is based on metonymy, so by analyzing their social backgrounds and the metonymy mechanism, the hidden truths and the political intentions would be exposed.
1.1 Motivation of the Study
The reasons for studying the political euphemisms from the Cultural-Cognitive perspective with data collected in American presidents’ inaugural addresses are as follows: Firstly, political euphemisms are common in political events and they can subtly indicate the speakers’ political preferences and avoid the sensitive topics. The study of political euphemisms is meaningful in properly understanding politicians’ hidden intentions, thus enhancing the effectiveness of the political communication. Secondly, most scholars analyzed political euphemisms from the perspectives of their functions, underlying purposes, rhetoric devices, and even the relationship between political euphemisms and tax policies. They focused on the
history, the classifications, the linguistic formations, and the functions. But most of them ignored the users of political euphemisms. Furthermore, few of them explained the ways how political euphemisms transferred their meanings. In a word, it was well-known that Cognitive Linguistics also paid attention to culture, but few scholars combined cognition and culture together. Thus the
thesis intends to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying political euphemisms by way of specifically analyzing the metonymy-producing relationships, and then tries to combine the metonymy mechanism with the cultural backgrounds together to further interpret political euphemisms. In the end, the relationship among language, cognition and culture would be revealed through the analysis of the selected examples.
...........
1.2 Objectives of the study
The objectives of the study are as follows: 1) The thesis intends to explore the metonymy mechanism underlying the producing process of political euphemisms. 2) The thesis combines the Radden & K?vecses’s metonymy models and “
本论文由英语论文网提供整理,提供论文代写,英语论文代写,代写论文,代写英语论文,代写留学生论文,代写英文论文,留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。