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1、ResearchProposalⅠTitleofthethesisCulturalDifferencesofColorWordsinChineseandEnglish中英文颜色词的文化差异ⅡLiteraturereviewDifferentcultureshavedifferentwaysofpresentingpointsofviewandofdrawingconclusions.Thewesternwaysofpresentingargumentativecasesanddrawingconclusionsisgenerallycha
2、racterizedbyprecision,clarity,directness,explicitness,anddetailedness.Incontrast,Chineseapproachismoreassociatedwithvagueness,ambiguity,storiesinsteadoffacts,indirectarguments,beingreservedandsensitivetosituationsorcontexts.Differentpatternsofthinkingalsodeterminedifferen
3、twaysofbehaving,sayingthings,presentingtheirarguments,anddrawingtheirconclusions.Inotherwords,wenowknowthatwhatisconsideredknowledgeorlogicalthinkingmayvarygreatlyacrosscultures.Languagesdifferenormouslyfromoneanother,andthesedifferencesarerelatedtoimportantdifferencesint
4、hecustomsandbehaviorsandotheraspectsoftheculturesinwhichthoselanguagereside.Inaword,languageisamirrorofculture.Hereinmythesis,ImainlyfocusonsomecolorwordsbothinChineseandEnglish.Weknowtherearemanyconspicuouscontrastsbetweenthetwolanguages,sothecolorwordsare.Scholarshaveex
5、ploredthemforhundredsofyears.Iaminterestedinthissubjecteither.Iwritethispaperbasedontheresearchofthosegreatpersonsandroughlyexploretheculturalandlinguisticgapbetweenthetwolanguagesconcerned.Thescientificresearchshowsthatthereareasmanyastwomillionkindsofidentifiedcolorsint
6、heworld.BothChineseandEnglishhaveagreatquantityofdifferentwordstodepictcolors.Theyaresimilarlyclassifiedingeneral.Butduetodifferentcultures,differencesexistundoubtedlyinthetwolanguages.Inthispaper,Iwillexpressmythoughtsfromfollowingaspects:differentcustoms,histories,relig
7、ionsandliteraturesofthetwolanguages,thedevelopmentsofthetwolanguagesinthefollowingfutureandsoon.Inconclusion,thedifferentusesofcolorwordsinChineseandEnglisharetightlyconnectedwiththedifferentculturesofthetwolanguages.ⅢKeypointsCulture:Itisacomplexcollectionofexperienceswh
8、ichconditiondailylife;itincludeshistory,socialstructure,religion,traditionalcustomsandeverydayus