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1、ThesisforBachelor’sDegreeAContrastiveStudyonCulturalConnotationsofBasicColorTermsbetweenEnglishandChineseAbstractWeliveinacolorfulworld.Thereareagreatvarietyofcolorwords,oralargenumberofexpressionsdenotingthesensationofcolorsusedtodescribethecolorfulthingsintheworld.Altho
2、ughdifferingintheirquantitiesinthecolorinventoryofdifferentlanguages,basiccolortermsareimportantcomponentsofalmostallthehumanlanguages.Asagroupofcultural-loadedwords,basiccolortermsreflectculturaldiversitiesintheaspectssuchasminds,customaryhabitsaswellascolororientations.
3、EnglishandChinese,aslanguageswithalonghistory,arebothabundantinbasiccolorterms,andalmostallthebasiccolortermscarrytheirownpeculiarconnotationsresultingfromdifferentsocialcultures,historicalprocessesandgeographicconditions.Withthedeepeningofthecross-culturalcommunicationbe
4、tweenChinaandthewesternworld,ithasbeenrealizedthatbasiccolortermsformanareainwhichmisunderstandingincross-culturalcommunicationseemsinevitablebecauseofthediversitiesoftheirculturalconnotations.Therefore,acontrastivestudyonculturalconnotationsofbasiccolortermsbetweenEnglis
5、handChineseisofsignificance.Languageisthecarrierandreflectionofculture,andcolortermsisonepartoflanguage.BythecontrastivestudyofculturalconnotationsofbasiccolortermsbetweenEnglishandChinese,wecanknowmoreaboutwhatisgoingoninpeople’smind,intheirlanguageandculture.Thisthesisc
6、onsistsoffourparts.Partoneisthegeneralintroductioninwhichitpointsoutwhatisdiscussedinthethesis.Parttwodefine“basiccolorterms”andintroducetherelationshipbetweencolortermsandculture;besides,italsodiscussesthenecessityofwritingthisthesisPartthreeservesasthemainbodyofthisthes
7、is,inwhichitgivessomeexamplesaboutcolor.Partfouristheconclusionofthewholethesis.-19-Keywords:contrastivestudy,culturalconnotations,basiccolorterms-19-摘要在人类生活的这个神奇的彩色世界里,颜色渗透着我们生活的各个领域。用来表示这些颜色的颜色词数不胜数,基本颜色词是本篇论文探讨的重点。虽然不同语言中基本颜色词的数量不同,但他们几乎是所有语言的词汇组成部分。作为具有文化伴随意义的词汇,基本颜色词
8、反映着社会心理、风俗习惯、颜色取向等文化因素方面的差异。英语和汉语同为源远流长的语言,都有丰富的基本颜色词。但是,由于不同的社会、历史、地理等原因,英语和汉语的许多基本颜色词都反映了各自民族的