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1、(20_一届)本科毕业设计英语颜色词在中西方日常生活中的应用差异IntroductionResearchBackgroundBecauselanguageisthecarrierofculture,people'swordsanddeedsreflectcertainculturalconnotationconsciouslyorunconsciously.Everysocialcommunicationpossessesitsowncertainthoughtpattern,value,custom
2、,andwayoflife.Foralongtime,peoplefocusedonthelanguageforms(suchasphonetics,vocabularyandgrammar)andignoredtheeffectofbackgroundknowledgeofculture.However,SocialCultureLanguageisaveryimportantcomponentofculture,theexistenceanddevelopmentoflanguageareinfl
3、uencedbysociety,andthesocialphenomenonandvocabularyofacertainhistoricalperiodsreflecttheobjectivehistoryofsociety.Manyscholarshavedoneavarietyofresearches.Forexample:LiuXingxingthoughtBecausedifferentcountriesandpeopleshavedifferenthistoricalbackground,
4、aestheticpsychology,livingenvironment,religiousbeliefs,makingthesamecolorwordscontaindifferentsymbolicmeaning,formedpeople'sadvocateandtabootothecolorsafterstretched.ThefamouslinguistPaulKayfromAmericanstudieddozensofaffiliateindifferentlanguages,heanal
5、yzes:black,white,red,orange,yellow,green,brown,blue,purple,pink,greyarethebasiccolorwords.AsthelinguistEdwardSapirindicatedinhisbooklanguage"languagecannotexistwithoutculture'5.PaulKaythoughtanylanguagesshouldhavetwobasiccolorwordsatleast,namelyblackand
6、white,thenightisblackwhichcontrastwithaloneandthedaytime.Thefounderofthemodernabstractart,WassilyKandinskypointedoutinthetheoryofartspirit:"coloraffectthespiritdirectly11.AmericanscholarsArnheim,pointedoutinthecolortheoryncolorcanexpressemotioneffective
7、lySignificanceoftheStudyColorwordsarewordsusedtodescribethecolorsofdifferentthings-Besidesindicatingtheirspecificcolors,suchasred,yellow,blackandwhite,theyalsoreflectthedifferentculturalconnotationsindifferentlanguages-WhenfacingthecolorfulEnglishcolorw
8、ords,onecan'ttakethewordsliterallybefore.TherearequiteafewidiomaticusagesandexampleswithChinesetranslationsofsomecolorwordsgivenforreference.F.R.PalmerpointedoutinhisbookSemantics“Itisclearthatthecolorsystemisnotsolelybaseduponth