红与白中西方的颜色词内涵对比

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1、红与白-中西方的颜色词内涵对比【Abstract】Allpeopleliveinthesamematerialworld，andthephysicalmechanismofperceptionisprettymuchthesameinallpeople.However，differentpeoplesfromdifferentcountriesandwithdifferentculturalbackgroundshavethedifferentfeelingstothesamecolorterm

2、.Becauseoftheirdifferentgeographicalposition，history，religion，custom，psychologyandwaysofthinking，theimpliedmeaningsofthecolorwordsaredifferent.Therearebunchesofcolortermsinthevocabulariesofdifferentcountries.Theyallhavedeepculturalconnotations，beside

3、stheirliteraldenotations.Insomeimportantoccasions，asthemainexpressionofcustoms，redandwhiteimplydifferentculturalbackgrounds.Throughtheanalysisofsymbolicmeaningsofredandwhite，thisthesisputsanemphasisonthenationaltraitsofcolorterms.Approachedfromfouras

4、pects--environment，perception，philosophyandreligion，thestudyexplorestheculturalandhistoricalrootsofthedifferences.Thepurposeofthisthesisistoavoiderrorsincross-culturalcommunicationsbasedonabetterawarenessofculturaldifferences.【KeyWords】red；white；conn

5、otation；causes；colorterms；EnglishandChinese【摘要】人们生活在同一个物质世界，其感知的生理机制使人们对颜色词的理解也不禁相同。但是，不同国家不同文化背景的人对同种颜色的理解也有所不同。这是因为不同的地理环境，历史背景，宗教信仰，文化风俗，心理以及思维方式使颜色词所蕴涵的意义产生差异。在各种语言词汇里有大量的颜色词，除了表达颜色本意之外，它们有更深刻的文化内涵。在中西方的重大场合里，红白两色作为一种重要的风俗表现形式，深刻体现了两种不同的文化背景，本文通过

6、对红白两色基本象征意义的对比分析，强调了英汉颜色词的民族特性，并从环境、感知、哲学和宗教四个方面探索了造成这种差异的文化历史根源。本文研究是为了更好地了解民族文化差异，避免在跨文化交际中产生失误。【关键词】红;白;内涵;原因;颜色词;英汉1.IntroductionTosatisfyourdailynecessities，peopleuseahostofcolortermstorepresentcolors.Forexample，itisestimatedthatthereareoverthre

7、ethousandcolorwordsinEnglish.Oureyesareabletodistinguishsevenmilliondifferentcolors，mostofwhichwecannotname.Asweknow，coloristhephysicalappearance.Althoughpeopleareindifferentcountries，theyalsohavethesamereflectionsofcolors.“AccordingtothefamousBKHypo

8、thesis——BerlinandKayconsiderthatalllanguagesincludetwotoelevenbasiccolors，whichareblack，white，red，yellow，green，blue，brown，purple，pink，orange，gray.”[1]However，inadditiontowhatwementionedabove，colorsalsoreflectthefeaturesofdifferentcultureandsocietytoc