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Nalanxingde Color Words Of Word

Posted on:2013-12-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z X PangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330374962259Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Every nation has its own color cognitive system, but the basic color words are universal. Different nationalities have different psychological cognition of color, even if they are the individuals of the same cultural background, they also have different understandings and preferences in color. Meanwhile, every word has the meaning of the specification within the dictionary, and the specific meaning in context, this embodies the subjective component of language. As a Manchu Ci anthor in early Qing dynasty, Nalan Xingde had special life experience, flounting feeling, valuing delight. The word context of he’s Ci is fresh and poignant. There are many color words in it.This article combine the cognitive linguistics, grammar, rhetoric, chromatics to analysis and study the color words of Nalan Xingde’s Ci. The full text is divided into eight parts. From chapter two to chapter seven are the main parts among the text. In chapter two, the color words in Nalan Xingde’s Ci can be divided into six color areas of red, blue, yellow, black, white, purple based on the Chinese basic color words that have been summarized by Yao Xiaoping. Nalan Xingde’s Ci including22kinds of color words, which appear by the ways of color words, color phrase and showing colors by objective things. Among them, the red class and green class accounted for a relatively large proportion. The color words of Nalan Xingde’s Ci is relatively simple in word-formation, they can be divided into simple color words and composite color words. Simple color words have two situations of monosyllable and multi-syllable words. In it,most of the simple color words are monosyllable. The simple color words in part utilizing as subject is a noun. Although the composite color words relatively have a small number, but morpheme is rich. Overall, the syntactic function of the color words of Nalan Xingde’s Ci is relatively varied, but the usage is rarely unique.The chapter three descripes the the syntactic function of the color words Nalan Xingde’s Ci.The chapter four analysises the semantic of the color words of Nalan Xingde’s Ci combining with the specific listen and the related classical literature.When color words used alone, the color words that said the nature purely express nature, and they occupy a relatively larger amount of quantity, which is the unlimited capacity. When the color words used alone and represent the state of things or actions of situation, it is only accounting for an amount of points, which is containing a limited amount of quantity that can express both the nature and extent. When a color word combined with the things noun to make a color term, on the one hand, color words directly express the color meaning of new words; on the other hand, color words do not directly express the color meaning of new words, but express tactfully by symbol, melonymy and metaphor and so on. When the color words express symbolic meanings, their basic semantic of color are weaken and even lost gradually while the symbolic meanings are raised. The same color word can have different symbolic meanings. Color is always the most distinctive characteristic in objects, and is most likely to be memorized by people. So it is able to evoke people’s experience and impression of the melonymy things by the most prominent color characteristic of things. Metaphor "is the mean to understand a thing by another thing", is a tool of perceiving and forming the concepts for people to understand the world. The metaphor of color words has important significance to achieve the artist pursuit of implication.The chapter five makes a overall summed of the syntactic and semantic relations of the color words of the six areas after the special analysis of the semantic of Nalan Xingde’s Ci. Most of the color words of Nalan Xingde’s Ci can act as attributive and predicate. When color words act as the attributive, they indicate the permanence of nature; when they act as predicate, they indicate the temporary state of the subject.The chapter six analysis the situations to show colors by objective things. It is the method that using things with a specific color to allege a particular color. The concept of things in this way firstly express the things property nor the color, so their basic meaning is express the objects. In this way, they only can express the temporary color in the specficl context. The special method of showing color increase the diversity of language, and making the expression of language more accurate and vivid. It is the reflection of the Chinese reserved subtle artistic style. At the same time, it expresses the inner feelings tortuously of the author.The chapter seven analysis the symmetrical colors words in Nalan Xingde’s Ci. Color liting with each other can show the level of colors and fully reflect the pretty colors. There are a large number of symmetrical colors words in it, including no color line color words and color line color words. At the same time, I made the lifting between the cool colors and warm colors by the relative cool and warm of colors. Which can stress the characteristics of things more-fully from the perspective of colors, to enhance the effects of color expression in the sentence and reflect the author’s inner feelings.Studying the color words of Nalan Xingde’s Ci, reflects the systematic and regularity of Chinese, as well as the subjectivity of the language.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nalan Xingde, Color words, Cognitive, Semantic
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