The Semantic Research Of "Black" "White" And "Grey" In Chinese

As a special word,color words are an important part of Modern Chinese vocabulary research.This article through to "black" and "white" and "grey" three have internal relations of color words as a whole,on the cognitive linguistics,cultural linguistics and based on the theory of language memes to "black" "grey" and "white," The Times of semantic conduct the thorough research to the development and changes.Traces the "black" and "white" and "grey" the source of three colors,explore the "black" "white" "grey" meanings change and derivative of synonymous words in "The Kangxi Dictionary","CiYuan","The Great Dictionary","Cihai",and "Modern Chinese Dictionary",found that the words ‘black',‘white' and ‘gray' were originally a real substance.And then a little bit of social development and thinking,"black","white" and "grey" are the color word concepts,the "color" of the upper category is also produced.In the process of increasing and decreasing the meanings of the three colors of "black","white" and "grey",can be found that these meanings are a lot of people in the continuous development of social and cultural life formed the basic category of cognition of things and constructed by the cognitive thinking and original things of metaphorical concept.Based on the "black" and "white" and "grey" the level of the three kinds of color word category and concept of metaphor research from the perspective of cognitive linguistics to find their meanings the cause of the increase and decrease,so as to find some color vocabulary meanings change rule.In this paper,by using the combined method of the diachronic linguistics and linguistics in the further to the modern Chinese "black" "grey" three kinds of color words "white," in analyzing the cultural linguistics theory,discusses the three color word meaning item contains national culture psychology and social values,from the perspective of cultural linguistics for internal connection of "black","white" and "grey".This article also use the color composition of color theory and the unity of opposites in the theory of classical philosophy thought to explain the relevance of three kinds of color words,at the same time,from the perspective of cultural linguistics theory and language memes theory Angle of three kinds of color words their meanings respectively discusses the imbalance of development,found and summarizes the inherent laws of development of these three kinds of color word meaning item,and these 3 kinds of color words in the presence of meanings in the development of contact with cognitive meanings and unbalanced development.Color word meaning item unceasing development,the development will promote the development of language,through the study of these three kinds of color word meaning item development,aimed at further to understand and analyze more color word and other phenomena and laws of development of lexical meanings.