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1、ResearchProposalⅠTitleofthethesisCulturalDifferencesofColorWordsinChineseandEnglish中英文颜色词的文化差异ⅡLiteraturereviewDifferentcultureshavedifferentwaysofpresentingpointsofviewandofdrawingconclusions.Thewesternwaysofpresentingargumentativecasesanddrawingconclusionsisgenerallycharacterizedbyprecis
2、ion,clarity,directness,explicitness,anddetailedness.Incontrast,Chineseapproachismoreassociatedwithvagueness,ambiguity,storiesinsteadoffacts,indirectarguments,beingreservedandsensitivetosituationsorcontexts.Differentpatternsofthinkingalsodeterminedifferentwaysofbehaving,sayingthings,present
3、ingtheirarguments,anddrawingtheirconclusions.Inotherwords,wenowknowthatwhatisconsideredknowledgeorlogicalthinkingmayvarygreatlyacrosscultures.Languagesdifferenormouslyfromoneanother,andthesedifferencesarerelatedtoimportantdifferencesinthecustomsandbehaviorsandotheraspectsoftheculturesinwhi
4、chthoselanguagereside.Inaword,languageisamirrorofculture.Hereinmythesis,ImainlyfocusonsomecolorwordsbothinChineseandEnglish.Weknowtherearemanyconspicuouscontrastsbetweenthetwolanguages,sothecolorwordsare.Scholarshaveexploredthemforhundredsofyears.Iaminterestedinthissubjecteither.Iwritethis
5、paperbasedontheresearchofthosegreatpersonsandroughlyexploretheculturalandlinguisticgapbetweenthetwolanguagesconcerned.Thescientificresearchshowsthatthereareasmanyastwomillionkindsofidentifiedcolorsintheworld.BothChineseandEnglishhaveagreatquantityofdifferentwordstodepictcolors.Theyaresimil
6、arlyclassifiedingeneral.Butduetodifferentcultures,differencesexistundoubtedlyinthetwolanguages.Inthispaper,Iwillexpressmythoughtsfromfollowingaspects:differentcustoms,histories,religionsandliteraturesofthetwolanguages,thedevelopmentsofthetwolanguagesinthefollowingfutureandsoon.Inconclusion
7、,thedifferentusesofcolorwordsinChineseandEnglisharetightlyconnectedwiththedifferentculturesofthetwolanguages.ⅢKeypointsCulture:Itisacomplexcollectionofexperienceswhichconditiondailylife;itincludeshistory,socialstructure,religion,traditionalcustomsandeverydayus