颜色词在中西方日常生活中的应用差异【毕业】.docVIP

（20_ 一届） 本科毕业设计 英语 颜色词在中西方日常生活中的应用差异 Introduction Research Background Because language is the carrier of culture, peoples words and deeds reflect certain cultural connotation consciously or unconsciously. Every social communication possesses its own certain thought pattern, value, custom, and way of life. For a long time, people focused on the language forms(such as phonetics, vocabulary and grammar)and ignored the effect of background knowledge of culture. However, Social Culture Language is a very important component of culture, the existence and development of language are influenced by society, and the social phenomenon and vocabulary of a certain historical periods reflect the objective history of society. Many scholars have done a variety of researches. For example: Liu Xingxing thought Because different countries and peoples have different historical background, aesthetic psychology, living environment, religious beliefs, making the same color words contain different symbolic meaning, formed peoples advocate and taboo to the colors after stretched . The famous linguist Paul Kay from American studied dozens of affiliate in different languages, he analyzes: black, white, red, orange, yellow, green, brown, blue, purple, pink, grey are the basic color words. As the linguist Edward Sapir indicated in his book language language can not exist without culture5. Paul Kay thought any languages should have two basic colorwords at least, namely black and white, the night is black which contrast with alone and the daytime. The founder of the modern abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky pointed out in the theory of art spirit: color affect the spirit directly11. American scholars Arnheim, pointed out in the color theory n color can express emotion effectively Significance of the Study Color words are words used to describe the colors of different things- Besides indicating their specific colors, such as red , yellow, black and white, they also reflect the different cultural conn