开题报告中英颜色词语文化内涵对比分析.doc

吉林大学珠海学院本科毕业论文（设计）开题报告 选 题 中英颜色词语文化内涵对比分析 An Analysis of Cultural Connotations of Chinese and English Color Words 院 系 外语系 专 业 英语专业 学生姓名 许文清 指导教师 王晶 本选题的意义及国内外发展状况： We are living in a colorful world, and as a student，I realize that there are a variety of color words or a large number of color expressions in our books describing all the color things in the nature and in the society as well. So colors are not only full of our lives，but also play a very important role in our lives. People all are relevant to colors, no matter in vision or emotion. Colors are abundant in both Chinese and English, such as black, white, red, yellow, green, blue, etc. The view and cognition of different national people toward color are much alike. They also have many common associations in color and color terms. However, Language can embody its culture. There is also difference between English and Chinese in how to express with color. And with the development of internationalization，color words have more connotative meanings. Thus, while translating and speaking the color words, we should pay attention its special meaning in culture. Therefore, basic color terms ,such as black and黑, white and白, red and红, yellow and黄, green and绿, blue and蓝, purple and紫,have heavy weight in our human languages. Basic color terms, as a group of culture-loaded words, express and reflect different cultural diversities in some perspectives. The meanings of color terms to the different nations are different because of their different customs, way of thinking, environments, psychology and religious belief, etc. All this makes the understanding of color terms are different in different nations. Wassily Kandinsky，the founder of modern abstractionist art, pointed out in his book On the Spiritual Art that color has an effect on a person’s affection squarely. According to what have mentioned above，colors play an indispensable part in our life and it’s an effective way to learn the different culture and t