| Abstarct | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-7页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第7-15页 |
| ·ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS IN LANGUAGE USE | 第7-9页 |
| ·GENERAL REVIEW OF THE STUDY OF EUPHEMISMS | 第9-11页 |
| ·PAST PRAGMATIC STUDY OF EUPHEMISMS | 第11-12页 |
| ·THE ARGUMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF THIS THESIS | 第12-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第15-33页 |
| ·THE DEFINITION OF ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第15-17页 |
| ·THE CLASSIFICATION OF ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第17-20页 |
| ·English Euphemisms in a Narrow Sense | 第18-19页 |
| ·English Euphemisms in a Broad Sense | 第19-20页 |
| ·THE FORMATION OF ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第20-33页 |
| ·The Fundamental Principles Governing the Formation of English Euphemisms | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Linguistic Means for the Formation of English Euphemisms | 第22-33页 |
| ·Phonetic Means | 第22-23页 |
| ·Semantic Means | 第23-26页 |
| ·Pragmatic Means | 第26-27页 |
| ·Grammatical Means | 第27-30页 |
| ·Rhetorical Devices | 第30-33页 |
| CHAPTER THREE INDIRECTNESS AND ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第33-47页 |
| ·ABOUT INDIRECTNESS | 第33-34页 |
| ·INDIRECTNESS IN ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS BELOW THE DISCOURSE LEVEL | 第34-38页 |
| ·Avoiding Taboo Words | 第34-35页 |
| ·Avoiding Vulgarity | 第35-36页 |
| ·Softening Original Words | 第36页 |
| ·Showing One's Respect | 第36-37页 |
| ·Disguising a Fact | 第37-38页 |
| ·INDIRECTNESS IN ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS AT THE DISCOURSE LEVEL | 第38-45页 |
| ·The Co-operative Principle (CP) and English Euphemisms | 第39-40页 |
| ·Interpretation of English Euphemisms Based on the CP | 第40-44页 |
| ·English Euphemisms as a Result of Violating the Maxim of Quality | 第41页 |
| ·English Euphemisms as a Result of Violating the Maxim of Quantity | 第41-42页 |
| ·English Euphemisms as a Result of Violating the Maxim of Relevance | 第42-43页 |
| ·English Euphemisms as a Result of Violating the Maxim of Manner | 第43-44页 |
| ·Communicative Motivations of Indirectness in English Euphemisms | 第44-45页 |
| ·Making One's Language More Interesting | 第44页 |
| ·Increasing the Force of One's Message | 第44-45页 |
| ·Achieving Competing Goals | 第45页 |
| ·Demonstrating Politeness | 第45页 |
| ·SUMMERY | 第45-47页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RELEVANCE AND ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第47-59页 |
| ·ABOUT RELEVANCE | 第47-53页 |
| ·The Origin of Relevance | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Notion of Relevance | 第48-50页 |
| ·Contexts, Contextual Effects and Processing Efforts | 第50-53页 |
| ·Contexts | 第50页 |
| ·Contextual Effects | 第50-51页 |
| ·Processing Efforts | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第52页 |
| ·Inference of Relevance | 第52-53页 |
| ·ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF RELEVANCE | 第53-56页 |
| ·ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS AND CONTEXTUAL EFFECIS | 第56页 |
| ·PROCESSING EFFORTS IN ENGLISH EUPHEMISMS | 第56-58页 |
| ·SUMMERY | 第58-59页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第59-61页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第61-63页 |
| REFERENCES | 第63-67页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第67页 |
