Taboo is human society universal existence of a kind of complex cultural phenomenon, she means that the social tries to certain behaioral ineffable, things or relationship, extended to express these content of language, this also is the People's Daily said language taboos phenomenon. Language taboos phenomenon exists in every nation in, it permeates a national cultural life, language, religion fields. All kinds of languages in the world, no matter how big or small language, languages are not the language taboos existence. Medium languages, for example: in both in Chinese and English language. There is a lot of language taboos, these taboo in relation to social all aspects of life. For example, in the UK culture, people of death is unfortunate and evil consensus, people like to talk about the topic, shunning the birth death topic. Think about death is unlucky and so on practical communication, people energizer avoid direct reference to death this worker not lucky words. Be like again, in many different culture in language, people all the same taboo off-color obscene curse, swearing words. English languages in this respect is no exception. Can say, curses and swearing words is commonly found in various language culture in one language taboos phenomenon, in communication, people try to avoid using these parting bad words. As companies in English of birch it rarely in formal situations appear. In Chinese language, though there are also some curse and swearing words, such as: "fuck" etc. But people also avoid using. Of course, no chiders curse words is usually by age sex and occupation restrictions. Generally speaking, kid call names will be affected by adults and teacher accused, women call names are asking is vulgar discourteous without breeding, etc, so in cross-cultural communication, communication both win fully conscious of the language taboos, thus reducing the universality of the improper use of and cause unnecessary trouble.
2.2 particularity.
Language taboos particularity also means his personality or nations sex. Different nations in its developing process of specific clan formed peculiar language and culture, a nation's culture in the national language can be reflected in, taboo language is not exceptional also, different nationalities taboo words behind all have different culture background. Because of the particularity of language taboos, people of different nationalities in the cross-cultural communication can can be on the same thing or phenomenon produces different even contrary opinion. So in intercultural communication, people must be fully aware that the particularity of language taboos, avoid causing unnecessary embarrassment in communication. For example, the Chinese to age outspoken, sometimes to honor also designedly "old" words, such as "an old teacher to, Lao wang, Mr. Zhang" etc, the eggs this form to the way people in western countries is unacceptable, in their view "it" is "senescence, useless" pronoun, meanwhile, the western countries women about their age is to keep secret. Westerners pay attention to personal privacy, for their part, age, money, marital status, and political views, religious belief and other all belong to personal privacy, others has no right to intervene, asking personal privacy could be considered rude and nurturing behaviour, however this kind of taboo in China but does not exist, the Chinese people advocate mutual trust and mutual concern, consider friends thing is to their own things, etc. Even in digital, english-chinese two nationalities also each have different opinions. For example digital "six" in Chinese eyes is the symbol of smoothly, such as "66 dashun" etc, and "six" in English isn't very popular at sixes and sevens, such as (a hideous mess, messy), it 's six of a-one and you a dozen of the of (off, the pot calling the kettle black); Chinese believe that digital "13" is a lucky number, and "13" in the west was considered very lucky number, people think this number will bring you luck. Therefore, understanding the particularity of language taboos can make us more thoroughly familiar with different cultures and traditions, this regarding the intercultural communication is very important and necessary
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