On the Functions of Euphemism in Social Communication

In the process of social linguistic communication, due to the different circumstances and conditions, people can not express certain things clearly in a direct way when they come across something painful, unpleasant, disgusted and even embarrassing. Instead, they have to use some vague, implicit, mild and euphemistic expressions, so as to achieve the purpose of expressing feelings and exchanging ideas and thoughts in an appropriate and light atmosphere. This paper tries to deal with the application of euphemisms in various fields, thereby reveal some main functions of euphemism, i.e. avoidance function, politeness function, gloss-over function and disguise function.     

我国科技人力资源与财力资源匹配规模优化研究

通过建立匹配效益数学模型和对匹配效益曲线的分析 ,指出对科技人力与财力资源匹配规模优化就是要使两种资源都处在有效约束状态。通过对我国科技人力与财力资源匹配规模的实证研究 ,得出结论 :我国当前科技人力资源已是匹配效益目标函数的无效约束 ,投入规模不宜盲目扩大 ,我国科技财力资源是有效约束 ,“瓶颈”所在 ,应当加大投入力度