Abstract
This study makes a comparison of color metaphors about the similarities and differences between English and Chinese for few articles study the metaphorical usage of shared basic color terms in Chinese and English. The author makes a relatively systematic study of the color metaphors, which has some significance in the light of the cross-cultural communication, language teaching, language learning, as well as translation practice.
Highlights
For most people, color is an immediate and essential component of their perception of the world (Elliot, Fairchild, & Franklin 2015; Hurlbert & Owen 2015)
Many experts concentrate their study on either different metaphorical meanings of one or two color terms in Chinese and English or basic color terms in a certain language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, few articles compare the metaphorical usage of shared basic color terms in Chinese and English
To fill up the gap in the field of color terms and to help us further understand the color metaphor, this thesis will make a contrastive study of six common color terms between English and Chinese
Summary
Color is an immediate and essential component of their perception of the world (Elliot, Fairchild, & Franklin 2015; Hurlbert & Owen 2015). Every country possesses diverse cognitive meanings for the color terms in its own languages because of different cultures, living environments and so on. These diversity implies disparities in the way people perceive the world for color terms are the product of human cognitive ability. Many experts concentrate their study on either different metaphorical meanings of one or two color terms in Chinese and English or basic color terms in a certain language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, few articles compare the metaphorical usage of shared basic color terms in Chinese and English. To fill up the gap in the field of color terms and to help us further understand the color metaphor, this thesis will make a contrastive study of six common color terms between English and Chinese
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