influence of cultural differences on the translation of color words论文毕业设计.doc

Influence of Cultural Differences on the Translation of Color Words 1 introduction When passing through prism sunshine are analyzed into seven different colors: red, orange, yellow, green, verdant, blue, and purple. In fact, objects themselves in nature do not have fixed colors as we see in our daily life. We mankind distinguish their colors by seeing the reflected light beams on the surface of the objects. The specific color is decided by the reflection of the light and absorption of the objects. However,we human beings added 揷olor?to emotions and make 揷olors?have emotional values ar cond conceiving wondrous cultural meanings. In social anthropology,”culture”is a catch word for all those patterns of thinking, feeling,and acting .lt is always a collective phenomenon,because it is at least partly shared with people who live or lived with in the same social environment. Culture can be classifid into several layers of which historioal,regonal,religious,and social cultures .Languages and culture are closely related. Certain language reflects certain culture in which the language is used.As two different languages,Chinese and English have their own cultural characteristics and connotations.We compares the cultural connotations of Chinese and English color words to see how important the cultural background of a language is in cross cultural communication. Color words are frequently used both in Chinese and English. Among English words terms of color make up a group of words that are particularly rich in cultural associations. This means that they can be used either literally to refer to different colors or metaphorically to convey their associative meanings in different languages and cultures. The conceptual meanings conveyed by the terms of color are roughly the same in English and their equivalents in Chinese. But the same terms of color in these two languages may have different cultural association. It is natural that English terms of color may have cultural associat