The Cultural Connotations of Color Words in English and Chinese
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 9
Abstract
The world we live in is colorful, and there isseveral of color words used to describe the colorful things in the world. Color is closely related to our life, it’s an important field for us to understand the world. Color not only has physical properties, but also has rich cultural connotation. Although the quantity of the color words in different languages is not the same, the color words are almost the components of vocabularies in all the languages. English and Chinese are both abundant in basic color terms, and with the deepening of the cultural communication between China and western countries, it has been realized that basic color words are inevitable becoming a barrier in the cross-cultural communication. The corresponding color words in English and Chinese are endowed with different cultural connotations, which increase the difficulty for cross-cultural communication. This thesis mainly through the basic color words: red, yellow, green, black, white and blue to make a contrast between English and Chinese, and the thesis will exert greater efforts to explain the reasons for the differences existing in the cultural connotations of color terms in English and Chinese.
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XiaoLing Yang
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