最新中英文化下颜色词的不同涵义文献综述Word格式.docx

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TheirUniversalityandEvolutionbyBerlinandKaysuggestthattheexpressionof“basiccolorterms”doesnothaveauniqueoperationaldefinition,yettheylayoutfourbasiccriteriatojudgewhetheracolorwordisbasicornot.Intheearly20thcentury,E.SapirandB.L.WholfputforwordLanguageRelativeTheory,thenBloomfieldcarriedoutCultureContactTheory,bothofwhichofferedafoundationforstudyingcolortermsintheframeoflanguageandculture.InfluencedbyBerlinandKay’spublication,basiccolortermstheoryhasresultedingreatachievementsincross-disciplineresearches.BerlinandKayarguethatbasiccolortermsinalllanguagesaredrawnfromauniversalinventoryofjust11colorcategories.Accordingtotheirtheory,everylanguagehasbetween2and11basiccolortermsandtheypresentahierarchywhichspecifiesalimitednumberofevolutionarypathsthatalanguagecantakewhenaddingnewcolorcategories.

Itpointsoutthatamongsomanycolorwords,weneedtofindoutbasiccolortermsanddoresearchonthesecolorterms.ThecrucialthingforustodoistostudythedifferencesbetweenbasiccolortermsinChineseandEnglishculture.

TheStudyofColorsbyGoethe,thenotedliterarygiant,believesthatshadesofcolorinnaturearerelatedtothesensoryattitudesofhumanbeings.Then,hefindsthatcolorcategoriesareprocessedbythehumanmind（learned,remembered,denotedandevolvedinlanguages）intermsoftheirinternalstructure.Basedontheresultsofexperimentsandrelevantstudies,heclaimsthatdifferentpsychologicalstatesoffeelingcanbeactivatedbydifferentcolorsintermsofwarmnessandcoldness.Hethinksthecolorsontheplussideareyellow,red-yellow（orange）,yellow-red（minimum,cinnabar）.Thefeelingstheyexcitearequickly,lively.Thecolorsontheminussideareblue,red-blueandblue-red.

Itisshowingthatknowingthedifferentmeaningsofcolorwordstendtobeknowledgeableinotherfield.Itmakesusconcernthingsinfullperspectiveswhichattributetomakethepaperconvectively.

Cross-culturalInvestigationofColorTermsbyMagnusin1880,statesthatcolortermsfrominformantsrepresentingdifferentculturesinmanypartsoftheworld.Heholdsanassumptionthatcolortermsarelinguisticallyrelativeandsemanticallyculture-specific.Theevidenceforthisassumptioninlinguisticsorsemanticsisthefactthatthereisonlyafewnumberofbasiccolorterms,whicharebelievedtorepresentahigherdegreeofabstractionandgenerality.Thenewtheoreticaldisputesaboutcolorterminology,andsupporttheexistenceofanevolutionaryfeatureincolorwordsbysuggestingthatprimitivepeople,beinginalessdevelopedstagesoftheircolorvocabulary,andindustrializedpeopledonothaveanidenticalcolor-sense.

Itchangespeople’sviewoftherelationshipbetweencolorterminologiesandtheirphysiologicalfoundations,andsomehowpredictedthepossibilityoflinguisticuniversalityincolorterms.

TheStudyoftheColorLexiconbyLakoffin1973,claimsthatwomenaremorelikelythanmentouse“fancy”orelaboratedcolorwordssuchasmauve,lavender,andbeigeinEnglish.Thesociolinguisticstudyofthecolorlexiconcanbefeasiblytakenasbeinginacomplimentarydistributionwiththecompletelyexaminedinthesensethatbothbasicandelaboratedcolortermsarestudied,andmostimportantofall,therelationshipsbetweenthesubjects’languageperformanceandpossiblesocialimplicationsaretakenintoaccount.Color 

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Allmentionaboveaboutcolorabroadlaidasolidfoundationforfuturestudy.Meanwhile,theyalsogivesignificantsuggestionsandinsightstoourrelativeresearchathome.

2.StudiesonColorinDifferentFieldsinChineseCulture

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ColorTermsandTheirTranslationbyZhangPeijiin1964,makesadetaileddescriptionoftheusageofalmostalltheEnglishcolortermsandtheirtranslation.InChina,peopleperceivedseveralcolorsandproducedasmanycolortermsaspossiblebecauseofthedevelopmentofdyingandpotteryindustries.SincetheMay4thMovementof1919,moreandmoreChinesescholarshavecarriedoutthestudiesoncolortermsbutintheearlytimethestudystillfocusedontheChinesecolorterms.Asearlyasinthe1940s,literatureandexegesisexpertshavealreadyanalyzedtheproductionanddevelopmentoffivecolorwordsinancientChinesecharacters—white,vermilion,yellow,black,green.HemakesadetaileddescriptionoftheusageofalmostalltheEnglishcolortermsandtheirtranslation.

Allinall,itletsmeknowthestudyofcolortermsinChina,andmakesmeclearlytocomparewiththesedifferentmeaningsofcolorwordsbetweenChinaandEnglish.

ProbingIntoFuzzyLanguageandRe-probingIntoFuzzy　LanguagebyWuTiepingintroducestheconceptoffuzzylanguage,inwhichcolortermsasaphenomenonoffuzzylanguagedrewtheattentionofscholars.Later,manyscholarsconductedresearchesbycomparingthecolortermsbetweenChineseandotherlanguages,aimingatfindingthedifferencesinlanguageandcultureandcontributingtotheinterculturalcommunication.Thestudyoncolortermswentfurtherandreacheditspeakinthe1990s.therelationshipofcolortermsandculturecanbesaidthatcultureandlanguageareconnectedandinterwovenwitheachother.Ononehand,colortermsfunctionasthecarrierofcultureandcultureisloadedincolorterms,throughwhichthematerialdevelopments,institutionalsystems,conceptualfeaturesandthelikeofacertainsocietyarerecorded,expressedandtransmitted.Ontheotherhand,colortermsisconsiderablygotinfluencedandtherefore,formedbyculturewhileitalsofullyreflectsculture.

Itprovidesmesomeusefulmasteryincolorwords,whichhelpsmealotinmypaperwriting.Withlargemateriel,thepapercanbeasenseoffulfillment.

OntheTheoriesofBasicColorTerms:

TheEvolutionofChineseBasicColorTerms（1988）byYaoXiaopingshowsasummaryofthetheoriesofbasiccolorterms,givingareviewofthedevelopmentofbasiccolorterms.Hestudiesofcolorwordsathomeandabroadareconductedmainlyinthefollowingareas:

（1）colortermsinphilosophy;

（2）thequantityofbasiccolorwordsanditsorderindifferentlanguages;

（3）semanticstudyoncolorwords;

（4）thestudyofgrammar,rhetoricandculturalmeaningoncolorwords;

（5）thecomparativestudyontranslationandculturalmeaningofcolorwords.Heputsforwardthreeconditionsthatmustbesatisfiedinperceivingcolors—alightsource,anobjectthatreflectsthelight,andafunctionaleyethatcanreceivethereflectedlight.Inhisopinion,simplecolorsrelatedtosomebasicelementsinthephysicalworldandthenatureofcolorsisassumedthatsimplecolorsweremixturesof“black”and“white”（ordarknessandlight）.

OxfordAdvancedLearner’sEnglish-ChineseDictionarygivesconnotationthefollowingdefinition“anideasuggestedbyawordinadditiontoitsmainmeaning”.Thedefinitionshowsthatconnotationofawordisdifferentfromitsmainmeaning.Awordincludesnotonlyitsmainmeaningbutalsoitsconnotation.Therefore,theculturalconnotationmeansthegeneralmeaningandconnotativemeaningofculture,it’srelatedtomanycircumstance,includingthesocialbackground,emotionsandattitudesofpeoplewhichexistinoneculture.Comparisonofcolortermsbetweendifferentlanguages,andtheirconnotations,functions,translationaswellastherelationshipbetweenthecolorwordsandculture:

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