Culture Difference of Color Words in Chinese and Western Countries 英语专业毕业论文.doc

Contents Abstract: 1 Key words: 1 一、Color and color words 3 （一）Color Words and their Historical Backgrounds 3 二、The difference expresses of different Color Words between English and Chinese Culture 4 (一)The similarities and differences expresses of Color Word “red” in English and Chinese Culture 4 1、The same express of Color Word “red” in English and Chinese Culture 4 2、The different express of Color Word “red” in English and Chinese Culture 5 (二)The similarities and differences expresses of Color Word “white” in English and Chinese Culture 6 1、The same express of Color Word “white” in English and Chinese Culture 6 2、The different express of Color Word “white” in English and Chinese Culture 6 (三) The similarities and differences expresses of other Color Words 7 1、Color Word “Green” 7 2、Color Word“Blue” 7 3、Color Word“Black” 8 Conclusion: 9 Reference: 10 Acknowledgements 11 Culture Difference of Color Words in Chinese and Western Countries Abstract: Language is the vehicle of culture, the difference of it’s connotation shows the difference culture characteristics. As Chinese and English language affected by their own culture background, the color words were given different culture connotation. Along with the development of human culture, the vocabulary that express Color are accordingly being enriched at the same time. The meaning of color also derived many other new significance than it’s original express of color, thereby, it made the human language become more lively and visual、rich and colorful. Color Words is the denotation of color language that used to talk or deliver information. As the human have the same physiology mechanism、vision nervous systemconsolidated thought, for this reason, there is a lot of common points between color words and language culture. Take the culture、living environment and different cultural background into consideration, people always describe the color of objects in their own ways and scales, with the result that the ass