COLOR WORDS

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1、COLORWORDS1.Introduction:AmongEnglishwordstermsofcolormakeupagroupofwordsthatareparticularlyrichinculturalassociations.Thismeansthattheycanbeusedeitherliterallytorefertodifferentcolorsormetaphoricallytoconveytheirassociativemeaningsindifferentlanguagesandcultures.Theconceptualmeaningsconveyedbyt

2、hetermsofcolorareroughlythesameinEnglishandtheirequivalentsinChinese.Butthesametermsofcolorinthesetwolanguagesmayhavedifferentculturalassociation.ItisnaturalthatEnglishtermsofcolormayhaveculturalassociationthatisnottransparenttoChineselearnersofEnglishasaforeignlanguage.Colorwordsarefrequentlyus

3、edbothinChineseandEnglish.Alotofcolorwordsareproducedunderspecialhistoricalandgeographicalbackground.Ifwedonotunderstandthesecolorwords,theirsocialcustomandculturalbackground,itwouldbehardforustocommunicatewitheachother.Itisveryimportantforustograspthedifferencebetweentheliteralmeaningandassocia

4、tivemeaning.Further,itispracticallyusefultoknowandstudythedifferences,thuspromotingtheculturalcommunicationandtranslationpractice.Thisarticlefocusesondiscussingthesimilaritiesanddifferencesofcolorwordsindifferentculturalfieldstohelppeopletohaveabetterunderstandingofdifferentcultures. 2.Thesimila

5、ritiesanddifferencesofcolorwordsbetweenEnglishandChinese:Thenatureiscolorful,andsomanywordscanbeusedtodescribeit.Generallyspeaking,blacksymbolizesoppression,whiteshowspurityandinnocence,greenbringsvitalforce.However,thesamecolormayhavethedifferentmeaningbecauseofthedifferenthistoryandculture.And

6、aftercarefulstudyofcolorwords,itiseasytofindthatcolorwordscanproducevariousassociations,whichhaveagreateffectonaperson’smoodsandbehaviors.Thatisthemainreasonthatpeopleusecolorwordstoexplaintheirmoralcharacter,moodandopinionstothings.Indifferentcountries,wordsofculturalconnotationaredifferent.Cul

7、turalconnotationmeansvocabularyisendowedwiththemeaningofmetaphor,association,symbolandsoon.Althoughcolorwordsofdifferentlanguageshavethesameconceptualmeaning,theirconnotativemeaningsaredifferent.Differentculturalbackgroundan