Culture in Color Terms between China and the West

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1、从颜色词看中西方文化CultureinColorTermsbetweenChinaandtheWestAbstract:BothinChineseandEnglish,therearemanycolorwords,whichexpressmentalityandemotionsofpeopleunderdifferentculturebackgrounds.Bymakingacomparisonofthesewords,peoplecanunderstandtheircultureimplications.Asanunusualgroupofth

2、elexicalsystem,colorterms,comparedwithotherwordcategories,havetheiroutstandingpeculiarities.Studyingthecultureimplicationsofthewordsisofgreatimportanceforsuccessfulcommunication.FocusingonthedifferentculturalconnotationsofcolorwordsinChineseandEnglish,thispaperpresentsacompar

3、ativeanalysisoftheirstructuralcharacteristics,semanticevolution,andgrammaticalfunctions,etc.TheauthoristryingtomakeananalysisonbasiccolortermsinEnglishandChinesebycomparingtheirsemanticmeaningsandculturebackgrounds.Inthesecontraststudy,wecanknowthattheimplicationofcolorsinChi

4、neseandEnglishisbasedonthenationalculturalpsychologyandthenaturalreaction.Thewordsofcolorplayanimportantroleinnationalcommunication,wecanexcavatethemutualaffectionofChineseandEnglish,it’simportantforourstudy.Keywords:colorwords;culturalimplications;translation;comparison摘要：在中

5、文和英文中，有许多表达来自不同文化背景下人们的感情和思想的颜色词。通过对这些颜色词的比较，我们就会明白隐藏在这些词之后的含义。作为词汇学里一个不寻常的群组，与其他词类相比，颜色词有他自己重要的特色。学习这些含义对我们的交际有很大的帮助。这篇论文对比分析了这些颜色词及短语在中西方的发展史，语法和其含义。作者通过在语义和文化背景两方面的对比对中西方的基本颜色词做了详细分析。在这些对比中，我们可以得知在民族心理和自然反应下中西方的不同颜色词的含义。颜色词在国际交际中扮演着重要的角色，我们可以发掘出中西方的互相作用力，这对我们的学习有很大帮助。关键词：颜

6、色词，文化寓意，翻译，对比ContentsI.Introduction………………………………………………………………..……1II.ReviewofBasicColorTermsinEnglishandChinese………….……………1A.Historicalreviewofcolor……………………………………………………………1B.People’sscientificviewoncolor……………………………………………………..2C.TheoreticreviewofbasiccolortermsinEnglishandChinese

7、……….…………...2III.SemanticComparisonandContrastofColorTermsinEnglishandChinese……………………………………………………………………..2A.SemanticcomparisonofcolortermsinEnglishandChinese……….……………21.Black………………………………………………………………….…………..32.White…………………………………………………………………..…………43.Red……………………………………………………………………

8、..…………54.Blue……………………………………………………………………...…….….65.Yellow………………………………