中英基本颜色词隐喻对比地研究.doc

A Contrastive Study on Metaphor of Basic Color Terms in English and Chinese By Su Hongxia Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts College of International Studies Guizhou University June, 2009 Acknowledgements Many people have contributed to the completion of this thesis. I would like to express my hearty gratitude to them. Firstly, I am going to give my heartfelt thanks to my supervisor, Zeng Xianmu. I cannot finish this paper without his encouragement and guidance. His advice has given great incentive for my writing this paper. He has spent a lot of valuable time on discussing the theoretical and structural questions of this thesis. Meanwhile, I will give my heartfelt thanks to Professor Wang Zhiyun, Professor Duan Lingli, Professor LiBinglin and Professor Jin Dingyuan for their enlightenment and guidance during the process of writing. And I am eternally grateful to other teachers for their warm-hearted help and encouragement during my study. Finally, I will give my thanks to those people who have helped me. iii A Contrastive Study on Metaphor of Basic Color Terms in English and Chinese  Specialty: Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics Orientation: pragmatics and Cognition  Supervisor: Zeng Xianmo M.A. Candidate: Su Hongxia  Abstract: Metaphor is a pervasive phenomenon which has traditionally been considered as a figure of speech. However, Lakoff views metaphor not merely as a matter of language but of thinking and cognition. The essence of metaphor is to understand and experience one kind of thing in terms of another. Metaphor is a conceptual mapping from a source domain to a target domain. Color terms are usually used to depict the colors of objects in the world. The study on color terms has been an interesting and attractive topic in diff