The Research On The Euphemisms Of Dream Of The Red Mansions

The euphemism exists generally in language and plays an important part in coordinating the interpersonal relationship. It's a kind of special language phenomenon which is used to adapt the traditional culture standard, the manners and customs and people's psychological need. The expresser did not speak frankly about their original intentions, but selected other words to express their meanings. There are four characteristics: first, in content taboo; second, turn of expression indirect; third, acceptability of expression; fourth, expansibility and difference.Dream of the Red Mansions includes a large quantity of euphemism. This article makes system's collating sort to the euphemism in Dream of the Red Mansions , and using grammar, semantics, rhetoric aspect and so on glossary study language theories, to analysis euphemism semantic constitution and construction method. Simultaneously profits from aspect and so on pragmatics, social linguistics, cultural linguistics theories, promulgates the cultural implication in the euphemism.This article is composed of six parts. The first part is beginning, it introduces the research situation of euphemism in Dream of the Red Mansions, Main content has four chapters. The first chapter is euphemism outline, by the composition of three section, including the definition, the characteristic and the standard of classify. The second chapter analyses the euphemism in Dream of the Red Mansions. It consists of six section, separately analyzing death euphemisms, rogue euphemisms, shame euphemisms aversion euphemisms, social situation euphemisms, other euphemisms. The third chapter discusses the euphemism's constitution principle and method. The euphemisms in Dream of the Red Mansions used constitution method has the pronunciation method, the writing method, the glossary method, the grammar method, the semantic method and the rhetoric method. The fourth chapter concludes the function of euphemism in Dream of the Red Mansions. The function is for the taboo, evades affronts, the table modest respect, cover landscaping, evades strives for elegantly vulgarly, to show the training. The last part is the conclusion.