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1、英漢顏色詞語文化內(nèi)涵對比研究AContrastiveStudyoftheMeaningsofColorWordsbetweenEnglishandChineseAbstract:TherearedifferencesintheuseofcolorsandcolorwordsbetweenEnglishandChinesecultures.Thedifferentculturesbringdifferentattitudestowardsthesamecolorbecauseofdifferentlanguagehabits,historicalbackgrou
2、nds,andtraditionalcustomsandsoon.Althoughthemeaningsofcolorwordsarerestrainedbycultures,theyrevealwideconnotationofcultures.Duetotherespectiveculturalbackgroundandtradition,people’sfeelingandexpressionstothecolorarenotthesame.Weshouldpayattentiontoobservingnotonlytheirbasicmeaning,b
3、utalsothedeepandbroadsymbolicmeaning.Thesymbolicmeaningsofcolorwordsoftenhavedifferentfeaturesindifferentlanguagecultures.Andsomeofthemevenhavebecometaboosandadornmentssincethemeaningsofthecolorwordsareextendedandtransferred.Meanwhile,theculturalexchangesandthecolorviewshavesimilarp
4、henomenonandcoincidenceinthelanguages.ThispapertriestoillustratethedifferentsymbolicmeaningsofcolorwordsinEnglishandChineseculturesbycontrastingandanalyzingofthem.Keywords:culturaldifferences;symbolicmeanings;contrast摘 要:因民族歷史文化、政治、宗教、習(xí)俗和社會環(huán)境等因素的影響,英漢文化語言中色彩詞用法各異,顏色觀也有所不同。中英文化在長期的歷史
5、沉淀中形成了各自獨(dú)特的顏色觀,折射出絢麗多姿的民族文化。文化制約了顏色詞的意義演變,顏色詞的文化意義又折射出了豐富的文化內(nèi)涵。由于各自的文化背景和傳統(tǒng),人們對顏色的感覺是不同的。我們不僅要注意觀察它們本身的基本意義,更要留心它們含義深廣的象征意義。象征意義在不同民族語言中往往有不同的特點(diǎn),有些特點(diǎn)甚至構(gòu)成了人們對經(jīng)過引伸、轉(zhuǎn)義以后顏色的崇尚和禁忌。同時,由于文化趨同性和文化的交流,語言所反映的顏色觀有相似或相疊合的現(xiàn)象。本文就英漢文化以上方面進(jìn)行對比分析,試圖說明英漢文化顏色詞的不同象征意義。關(guān)鍵詞:文化差異;象征意義;對比第15頁ContentsI.Intr
6、oduction........................................................................................1II.Backgrounds……………………………...………………………….2A.Colorwordsandtheirhistoricalbackgrounds…………………….….2B.ColorwordsinEnglish……………………………………………...3C.ColorwordsintraditionChinesecultures.............
7、...............................3III.TheNecessityandImportanceofLearningtheSymbolicMeaningsofColorWordsinEnglishandChineseCulture………….4IV.BasicColorWordsinEnglishandChineseCulture……………...5A.Themeaningof“green”………………………………..…………....5B.Themeaningof“red”……………………………………………….6C.Themeaningo
8、f“white”……………………………