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1、（20__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1.Introduction1.1ResearchBackgroundBecauselanguageisthecarrierofculture,people'swordsanddeedsreflectcertainculturalconnotationconsciouslyorunconsciously.Everysocialcommunicationpossessesitsowncertainthoughtpattern,value,custom,andwayoflife.Foralongtime,peoplefo
2、cusedonthelanguageforms(suchasphonetics,vocabularyandgrammar)andignoredtheeffectofbackgroundknowledgeofculture.However,SocialCultureLanguageisaveryimportantcomponentofculture,theexistenceanddevelopmentoflanguageareinfluencedbysociety,andthesocialphenomenonandvocabularyofacertainhistoricalperi
3、odsreflecttheobjectivehistoryofsociety.Manyscholarshavedoneavarietyofresearches.Forexample:LiuXingxingthoughtBecausedifferentcountriesandpeopleshavedifferenthistoricalbackground,aestheticpsychology,livingenvironment,religiousbeliefs,makingthesamecolorwordscontaindifferentsymbolicmeaning,forme
4、dpeople’sadvocateandtabootothecolorsafterstretched.ThefamouslinguistPaulKayfromAmericanstudieddozensofaffiliateindifferentlanguages,heanalyzes:black,white,red,orange,yellow,green,brown,blue,purple,pink,greyarethebasiccolorwords.AsthelinguistEdwardSapirindicatedinhisbooklanguage”languagecannot
5、existwithoutculture”.PaulKaythoughtanylanguagesshouldhavetwobasiccolorwordsatleast,namelyblackandwhite,thenightisblackwhichcontrastwithaloneandthedaytime.Thefounderofthemodernabstractart,WassilyKandinskypointedoutinthetheoryofartspirit:"coloraffectthespiritdirectly".AmericanscholarsArnheim,po
6、intedoutinthecolortheory"colorcanexpressemotioneffectively".1.2SignificanceoftheStudyColorwordsarewordsusedtodescribethecolorsofdifferentthings.Besidesindicatingtheirspecificcolors,suchasred,yellow,blackandwhite,theyalsoreflectthedifferentculturalconnotationsindifferentlanguages.Whenfacingthe
7、colorfulEnglishcolorwords,onecan’ttakethewordsliterallybefore.TherearequiteafewidiomaticusagesandexampleswithChinesetranslationsofsomecolorwordsgivenforreference.F.R.PalmerpointedoutinhisbookSemantics“Itisclearthatthecolorsystemisnotsolelybas
