中外颜色词不同意义的论文开题报告.doc

石河子大学 毕业论文开题报告 课题名称： 论中西文化中颜色词的内涵意义 Study on the Connotative Meanings of Color Words of Chinese and Western Countries 学生姓名： 邓 家 清 学 号： 2009051355 学 院： 外国语学院 专业、年级： 英语专业20091 指导教师： 刘 凤 峨 职 称： 副 教 授 毕业论文(设计)完成时间： 2013年6月9日 A Study of Connotative Meanings of Color Words in Chinese and Western Culture I. Purpose and Significance As is known to us, language not only expresses facts, ideas, and events which represent similar world knowledge by the people, but also reflects the people’s attitudes, beliefs, and world outlooks etc. People from different cultures understand the world around them differently, so are the languages, which they use to describe their surroundings. Languages differ enormously from one to another, and these differences are related to important differences in the customs and behaviors and other aspects of the cultures in which those language reside. In a word, language is a mirror of culture. In our daily life, color words are the common illustrations of the cultural differences in language use. In Chinese and western cultures, color words are used widely in people’s daily time and in the same way influenced by cultures. In order to further understand color words in Chinese and western culture, it is very necessary to have a study of color words. In this paper, I mainly explain different and similar phenomena concerning the use of color words through examples and contrastive analysis of connotative meanings of color words in Chinese and western culture. So that I can help English learners better understand the connotative meanings of color words in different languages, and find the similarities and differences. Therefore they c