A Study of the Cultural Differences of Color Words in Chinese and English英语专业毕业论文

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1、AStudyoftheCulturalDifferencesofColorWordsinChineseandEnglish摘要在英、汉两种语言中都有丰富的颜色词汇。在学习过程中，我们不能仅仅局限于了解它们的基本含义，还要着眼于探究其深层的内涵和象征意义，因为它们的象征意义在不同语言中可能会有所不同。这种差别主要是由不同的文化风俗、地理位置、历史传统、宗教信仰和审美观引起的。它是在社会和历史发展中形成的一种永恒的文化现象。本文从中英文化对比的角度出发，旨在分析和探索颜色词的文化差异。关键词：颜色词；文化差异；内涵意义；象征意义ABSTRACTInbothChi

2、neseandEnglish,therearerichcolorterms.Weshouldnotonlypayattentiontotheirbasicmeanings,butalsofocusontheirdeepconnotationsandsymbolicmeanings,becausetheirsymbolicmeaningsaredifferentindifferentlanguages.Thisdifferenceiscausedbythedifferenceinculturalcustom,geographicallocation,histo

3、ricaltradition,religiousbeliefandaestheticstandard.Itisaneverlastingculturalphenomenonformedinthedevelopmentofsocietyandhistory.Thispaper,fromthepointofviewofChinese-Westernculturalcomparison,isintendedtoanalyzeandexploretheculturaldifferencesofcolorwords.Keywords:colorwords,cultur

4、aldifference,connotation,symbolicmeaningCONTENTS0.Introduction11.Thetheoreticalstudyofcolorterms12.Thesignificanceoftheresearchoncolorterms13.TheculturaldifferencesofcolortermsinChineseandEnglish23.1AgeneralcomparisonofcolortermsinChineseandEnglish23.2Theculturaldifferencesofsomeba

5、siccolortermsinChineseandEnglish33.2.1Black33.2.2White43.2.3Red53.2.4Blue63.2.5Green73.2.6Yellow83.2.7Purple94.ThetranslationofcolorwordsacrossChineseandEnglish104.1Totranslatethecolorwordsliterally104.2Tochangetheoriginalcolorwords114.3Toaddcolorwordstotheoriginaltext114.4Totransl

6、atethecolorwordsfreely115.Conclusion12WorksCited140.IntroductionOurworldisacolorfulworld,wheretherearenumerouskindsofcolors.Colorisoneimportantfieldofhumancognitiveworld.Itiscloselyconnectedwithourhumanlifeandwearecontactingwithitallthetime.Wefindthatword-for-wordtranslationofcolor

7、termsacrosslanguagesisfrequentlyimpossible,becausedifferentlanguageshavedifferentbackgrounds.Nowordinonelanguagecorrespondsexactlytoawordinanother.Forexample,thereisnosinglewordinFrenchthatcoversexactlywhatbrowndoesinEnglish.Factsofthiskindwerefrequentlyciteduntiltheendofthe1960s(L

8、yon313).1.Thetheoreticalst