A Comparative Analysis Of Cultural Connotations Of Color Terms In English And Chinese

Color is perception of people to the objective world. In human language there are great numbers of color terms recording color of the world; these color terms are often used in human language, gradually, they are endowed with rich emotional elements and cultural connotations. In cross-cultural communication, different nations with different cultural backgrounds or people of the same nations with the same backgrounds but belonging to different social groups or social classes have different perceptions of various colors. The different perceptions of colors result in a series of associative meanings of color terms. This thesis intends to discuss color terms from the following four aspects: firstly, it deals with the relationship between language and culture. Language and culture are connected with each other. On the one hand, language is the carrier of culture; culture is loaded in language. On the other hand, language is influenced and shaped by culture and meanwhile reflects culture. So the understanding of a culture requires the understanding of the corresponding language and vice versa. Color terms are part of human language. They...