Colorful World——Cultural Connotation of Color words in English and Chinese
Abstract
Language belongs to culture. The differences of Sino-west culture are the inevitable phenomenon because of the divergences among society, history , geography , nationality , literature art , religion , convention etc, which result in the divergence of color words understanding and usage between English and Chinese however, everyone has his or her aesthetic sentiment .It could be a significant question to recognize these divergences of cultural language in order to study or grasp English language and facilitate the Sino-west understanding and communication.
Key words: color words, cultural divergences, English, Chinese
内容提要
语言从属于文化。由于社会，历史，地理，种族，文学艺术，宗教以及传统习俗等的不同，因此中西方文化不可避免地存在着差异现象，而这种差异直接导致汉英在颜色词的理解和使用上的区别。尽管如此，它们各自却有着自己的审美情趣。因此，识别颜色词中的文化差异对于我们学习和掌握英语以及促进中西理解和交流都具有重要意义。
关键词：颜色词，文化差异，英语，汉语
outline
I. Introduction
Both English and Chinese have abundant vocabulary of color words, which range are essentially consistent and have common rational concept. However , because different kinds of conditions work on our understanding of this splendidly colorful world , we have to affront the exist of different usage and selection of color words among so many countries and nationalities.
II. Discussion
A. The similarities of English-Chinese color words on usage
1. Color, politics, and honor.
2. Color and emotion, character of mankind
B. The differences of culture connotation between En无忧论文 【http://www.uklunwen.com】glish-Chinese color words
1. Different language might use different color terms to describe the same object or phenomenon
2. The same color is not always represented the same way in the two language.
C. The reason for different culture connotation between English-Chinese color words
1. The relationship between color words and history background
2. The relationship between color words and literatures, arts
3. The relationship between color words and religious belief
III. Conclusion
From above we can see, the color words between English and Chinese culture have different degree of divergence however, both of they have some degree of common in some certain aspect, but the most is collides yet. So we must make more attention for understanding and translation between Chinese and English, otherwise, we do not only make an ass of ourselves, but also result in the cultural collides.
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Colorful World——Cultural Connotation of Color words in English and Chinese 
