Comparative study of the ways of euphemisms formation in Russian and Chinese languages

This article is devoted to the analysis of the use and methods of euphemisms formation in Chinese and Russian. Russian and Chinese belong to different language systems, but there are a huge number of euphemisms in Russian and Chinese that are widely used in many fields, and there are similarities in the ways of expressing euphemisms in Russian and Chinese. The object of the study is euphemisms in Russian and Chinese. The comparative study of the ways of expressing these euphemisms mainly from linguistic and cultural points of view are the subject of research. The research methods in this article are descriptive, classification method, deductive, comparative historical and comparative. The novelty of the article lies in the comparative analysis of euphemisms in Russian and Chinese. Russian euphemisms are presented in the works of Zhang Chang "Euphemization in Russian and Chinese: linguoculturological and linguopragmatic aspects", V. A. Akbash "Comparative analysis of national and cultural characteristics of the origin and functioning of euphemisms in Chinese and Russian languages", as well as a study of euphemisms associated with coronavirus, presented in the work of M. A. Akbash. S. Belova and E.A. Kindler "Structural and semantic features of euphemisms and dysphemisms (based on German-language articles on the topic of coronavirus) and Starshinova P.P. "Euphemisms in journalistic discourse (based on materials from English-language media devoted to coronavirus)", while there are prospects for comparing methods of classification by semantic features and methods of euphemism formation in Russian and Chinese. It was revealed that the linguistic ways of forming euphemisms are divided into phonetic, lexico-semantic, and phraseological ones.

Chinese, Russian, euphemism, linguistic ways of formation of euphemisms, a comparative study of languages, phonetics, vocabulary, phraseology, semantics, language and culture