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The characteristics of euphemism in American News English

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Hui Min Zhao
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Hui Min Zhao
Available Online November 2016.
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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.60How to use a DOI?
Keywords
American English; News English; euphemism; language study; statistical research.
Abstract

In daily communication, the speaker tends to use Euphemism to express the speaker's thoughts in an indirect way, in order to reduce the disturbing and offensive to the listener. Euphemism, which comes from the worship and awe of the supernatural power, has been deeply rooted in the social life, and deeply reflects the social and cultural values of a country. To a large extent, the use of euphemism depends on context. As a mass media, news reports provide us with a lot of information, covering all parts of the world, involving various fields, and deeply affect people's lives. The language of news report has the characteristics of accuracy, simplicity, authenticity and timeliness. In addition, the news media as a communication tool, but also has the characteristics of publicity, publicity and so on. Due to the vagueness and indirect features of euphemism, euphemism plays a special and important role in the news reports. The main function of euphemism is to protect the face from the author and the reader from all kinds of offensive, and ultimately safeguard the interests of politicians and the government. Specifically, these offensive terms include taboo words or topics that are more sensitive to both parties, such as political or social issues.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2016
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978-94-6252-263-3
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2352-5398
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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.60How to use a DOI?
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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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