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1、ResearchProposalⅠTitleofthethesisCulturalDifferencesofColorWordsinChineseandEnglish中英文颜色词的文化差异ⅡLiteraturereviewDifferentcultureshavedifferentwaysofpresentingpointsofviewandofdrawingconclusions.Thewesternwaysofpresentingargumentativecasesanddrawingconclusionsisgenerallychar
2、acterizedbyprecision,clarity,directness,explicitness,anddetailedness.Incontrast,Chineseapproachismoreassociatedwithvagueness,ambiguity,storiesinsteadoffacts,indirectarguments,beingreservedandsensitivetosituationsorcontexts.Differentpatternsofthinkingalsodeterminedifferentw
3、aysofbehaving,sayingthings,presentingtheirarguments,anddrawingtheirconclusions.Inotherwords,wenowknowthatwhatisconsideredknowledgeorlogicalthinkingmayvarygreatlyacrosscultures.Languagesdifferenormouslyfromoneanother,andthesedifferencesarerelatedtoimportantdifferencesinthec
4、ustomsandbehaviorsandotheraspectsoftheculturesinwhichthoselanguagereside.Inaword,languageisamirrorofculture.Hereinmythesis,ImainlyfocusonsomecolorwordsbothinChineseandEnglish.Weknowtherearemanyconspicuouscontrastsbetweenthetwolanguages,sothecolorwordsare.Scholarshaveexplor
5、edthemforhundredsofyears.Iaminterestedinthissubjecteither.Iwritethispaperbasedontheresearchofthosegreatpersonsandroughlyexploretheculturalandlinguisticgapbetweenthetwolanguagesconcerned.Thescientificresearchshowsthatthereareasmanyastwomillionkindsofidentifiedcolorsinthewor
6、ld.BothChineseandEnglishhaveagreatquantityofdifferentwordstodepictcolors.Theyaresimilarlyclassifiedingeneral.Butduetodifferentcultures,differencesexistundoubtedlyinthetwolanguages.Inthispaper,Iwillexpressmythoughtsfromfollowingaspects:differentcustoms,histories,religionsan
7、dliteraturesofthetwolanguages,thedevelopmentsofthetwolanguagesinthefollowingfutureandsoon.Inconclusion,thedifferentusesofcolorwordsinChineseandEnglisharetightlyconnectedwiththedifferentculturesofthetwolanguages.ⅢKeypointsCulture:Itisacomplexcollectionofexperienceswhichcond
8、itiondailylife;itincludeshistory,socialstructure,religion,traditionalcustomsandeverydayus