现代汉语色彩词白(国外英语资料).doc

现代汉语颜色词白 Modern Chinese color words white cultural connotation and conformation The state of guan was 1102 bamivikanAbstract: Language as a tool of human communication and thinking is the constituent of social culture, the carrier and manifestation of culture. As one of the constituent elements of language, vocabulary in closely associated with the cultural and psychological aspects of thinking, the same words have different meanings in different language, its connotation in the unified language also has the diversity and complexity. The modern Chinese color words white as the basic vocabulary, has the strong ability of word formation, from the original meaning derived from a variety of cultural connotation, its color is worth to this analysis. Keywords: modern Chinese white culture connotation formation Preface: The original meaning of the word white refers to a color, which is a color of frost or snow, relative to the color black. In the essay, the interpretation of it is the western color. Through the development of The Times and the cultural exchanges of the outside world, the color of white has many cultural connotations and presents contradictory and complicated characteristics. In modern Chinese, the meaning of white mainly are five: purity and innocence, light and justice, death and evil omen, emptiness and blank, GanXie and reactionary. There has been a trend of neutralization in modern times. In addition, white as a basic word has powerful word-formation ability, all white is white. The study contains the meaning of the word white, which is of great significance to the connotation of the social and cultural connotation of the color word white. Body: Cultural meanings of white in modern Chinese is diverse, contradiction, complex, at the same time has good, derogatory sense two kinds of emotional color, the other distinct differences of vocabulary is also derived. (1) the cultural connotation of the positive color: purity, innocence and beauty Whi