As a social cultural phenomenon,language taboo would definitely be reflected in literature,and could be traced down according to certain rules.

It holds that euphemism, as a folk cultural phenomenon, is originated from language taboo.

As a kind of special pragmatic phenomenon,“language taboo”is restricted by its given cultural context and social psychology.

Through a contrastive analysis,the present paper investigates the similarities and divergences of linguistic taboos in English and Chinese,which massively exist in both languages.

Taboo is a very sensitive problem in cross-cultural communication,which displays as linguistic ta- boo and non-linguistic taboo.

As a major component of language, linguistic taboos are an important indicator of language change, which in turn, is a reflection of culture change.

This essay is to tell the difference between Chinese and Western culture by studying Chinese and English verbal taboo at three points:pronunciation,vocabulary and speaking manner.

The writing,based on the Sichuan dialect,discusses language taboos in the Sichuan dialect from the three aspects of pocai,xiedu and xionghuo.

This paper focuses on non-verbal taboos socio-psychology and social function.

Non verbal taboo and an efficacious thing worship is a common existing cultural phenomenon in Chinese and western society.