South Korea Euphemism Comparative Study

Euphemism performance as a essential language activities in life takes veryimportant role in social communication. China and South Korea have similarConfucian culture, but each of them has a specific style of the national character. As alubricant expression, Euphemism performance takes actively guide role in modernsociety communication event for China and South Korea’s social language.Study of Chinese euphemism expression mainly from the perspective of rhetoricand semantics, meanwhile, study of euphemism expression in South Korea is stillvery little. Therefore, as a breakthrough point, collected and analyzed the linguisticfeatures of euphemism in speech act and synthetically. Secondly, from the perspectiveof pragmatics to reclassify the euphemism, In the context as the division standard,from the perspective of cultural context and linguistic context, two sino-south Koreaneuphemism showed all aspects of the analysis and summary. From different views ofthe two countries for example literature, journalism, film and television works ofabundant to observe the euphemism expression use of the two countries. In thetraditional taboo, national psychology, Confucian culture, and customs these fouraspects, the paper did a root cause analysis in the use of euphemistic expression in thetwo countries.