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1、AComparativeStudyontheSenseofRedinEnglishandChinese英汉红色词义对比研究AcknowledgementsThisthesisisdedicatedtoalltheteacherswhohavetaughtmealot,especiallytomysupervisor,whohashelpedtoworkouttheoutline,givingmeenlighteningadvicethroughoutthewholeprocessofthepresentthes
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3、thebesttheycouldoffer.Withoutallthesupport,Icouldnothavecompletedthistoughwork.21AbstractColourtermsareabundantinbothEnglishandChinese,suchasred,yellow,andblue.Inthisthesis,IhaveattemptedtomakeacomparisonbetweenthesenseofredinEnglishandthatinChinesebystudyin
4、gtheexamplescollectedfromallthematerialsavailable.Thethesisisdividedintothreeparts.InChapterOne,IrelatecolourtermswithcognitionandcultureinEnglishandChinese.InChapterTwo,IlistalotofexamplesrelatedtoredinEnglishandChineseandanalysethemfromthreeaspectsintermso
5、ftheirsense:exactequivalence,partialequivalence,noequivalence.InChapterThree,Ifindoutthefactorsthatcausethesesemanticsimilaritiesanddifferencesofredfromtheperspectiveofcognitionandculture.ThroughacomparativestudyofthesenseofredinEnglishandChinese,Ishedlighto
6、nthethreekindsofequivalentrelationshipofredtermsinEnglishandChinese.ThethreekindsofequivalentrelationshipindicatethatthereexistsimilarityanddifferenceinredtermsbetweenEnglishandChinese.Bothsimilarityanddifferenceareattributedtocognitivebasisandculturalinflue
7、nce.Ifpeopleknowthemwell,theycanachievebettercross-culturecommunication.Keywords:thesenseofred;semanticequivalence;similarity;difference;cognition;culture21摘要在英语和汉语中,存在着丰富的颜色词,如红色,黄色,蓝色。在这篇文章中,通过研究所获材料中的例子,我尝试着对英汉红色词义进行了对比分析。本文分为三个部分。在第一章中,我谈到了颜色词与认知和文化的关系。在
8、第二章中,我列举了中英文里有关红色词语的许多例子,并且结合三种语义对等关系对它们进行了分析:英汉语义的完全对应,部分对应和不完全对应。在第三章中,我从认知以及文化的角度,阐释了导致这些红色词语在中英文里语义相似和不同的原因。通过对中英文中红色词义的对比研究,我揭示出红色词语在中英文里的三种对应关系。这三种对应关系表明在英汉两种语言里,红色词语的语义确实存在着相似性和差异性,而这些相似性