In different languages and cultures, color terms usually indicate their specific cultural concepts and metaphorical implicature. This paper makes a typological study on the universality and relativity of the Conceptua...In different languages and cultures, color terms usually indicate their specific cultural concepts and metaphorical implicature. This paper makes a typological study on the universality and relativity of the Conceptual Metaphors （CM） of color terms in different languages. It attempts to explore the cognitive differences and similarities in the process of categorization and metaphorization of color terms of oriental and western peoples. It proposes that the CM system of color terms is determined by the interactivity of three factors as neurophysiologic mechanisms, general cognitive psychological mechanisms and socio-cultural selective mechanisms. The CM of color terms in different languages carry their specific cognitive characteristics and cultural values, and reflect self-similarity of the language and culture.展开更多
The vocabulary is the most active factor in the language, and the meaning of color words in the vocabulary is abundant. The nature is multicolored, so various nationalities have formed each unique color view in precip...The vocabulary is the most active factor in the language, and the meaning of color words in the vocabulary is abundant. The nature is multicolored, so various nationalities have formed each unique color view in precipitated long-term history, refracting gorgeous national culture. Culture has restrained the meaning of the color words from developing, and the cultural meaning of the color words has refracted out abundant cultural intension again. Because of different cultural issues, cultural tradition, and culture psychology, the cultural connotations of the English and Chinese color words differ greatly, as a result, these particular cultural connotation meanings are cast under different environments by different nationalities. There are a lot of similarities and differences on the meaning between English and Chinese color words. This paper analyzing Chinese and English color terms in the angle of lexicology, is guided by the book An Introduction to English Lexicology. After reviewing the research done by some linguists, this paper starts from the definition and origin of color terms, studies the changing and word-formation of color terms, then ends with some researches on the idioms on color terms, which gives a systematically comparison of Chinese and English color terms on their developing progress.展开更多
This article studies the new color terms in Chinese.It first classifies the color terms from four linguistic aspects:pronunciation,grammar,semantics,linguistic context and the theory of "Four Worlds," namel,...This article studies the new color terms in Chinese.It first classifies the color terms from four linguistic aspects:pronunciation,grammar,semantics,linguistic context and the theory of "Four Worlds," namel,language,physics,culture,and psychology.It then summarizes all the characteristics of the new color terms.The study takes questionnaires as supplementary data,explores and proves the interactive relationship between metaphorical expression and cognitive psychology of new color words.The life span of such new color terms is also discussed.展开更多
We name colors of foods with great ease. This process is conventionalized through our cultures and our biological dictates. People identify food colors through words that are again highly constrained. Embodiment of ex...We name colors of foods with great ease. This process is conventionalized through our cultures and our biological dictates. People identify food colors through words that are again highly constrained. Embodiment of experience and perception deals with these constraints to make color term use a cognitively economical mechanism, keeping numbers of concepts in mind through categorial conceptualization in long term memory. The parallel process that puts together our linguistic and visual information, allows the individual to map a correspondence between the two frames. The result of this mapping is a ＂cognitive color＂ in long term color memory. This paper presents an experiment in triggering long term memory and the response results. The objective was to verify whether individuals＇ cognitive color of well known foods, both raw and cooked, that they had just identified with Natural Color System （NCS） color samples, would be predominantly a primary basic color term, a secondary basic color term, or a complete descriptive utterance. The name used to communicate a desired signification is accessed through the judgement of similarity and difference with a point of reference. In this case, the food color vantage represents the cognitive color remembered.展开更多
Studies of metaphor and color metaphor have always been a hot topic over the past decades, on which researches have been done a lot. However, the emotion metaphor of color sources has not been that popular. Therefore,...Studies of metaphor and color metaphor have always been a hot topic over the past decades, on which researches have been done a lot. However, the emotion metaphor of color sources has not been that popular. Therefore, from the viewpoint of conceptual metaphor theory, the author intends to conduct a comparative study of English and Chinese emotion metaphor in terms of basic color sources based on data from dictionaries, which is of theoretical and practical value.展开更多
qing(青)is a very special and controversial color term in Chinese language and culture for the fact that it can refer to green,blue,or black depending on how it is used in collocation or context;it can be used as both...qing(青)is a very special and controversial color term in Chinese language and culture for the fact that it can refer to green,blue,or black depending on how it is used in collocation or context;it can be used as both a basic color term and mixed color term;in context it can be understood to refer to a certain color,but sometimes nobody can tell for sure what specific color it refers to;it can refer to color,but in more situations the understanding of it just goes beyond the perception of color,bringing about a vague but delightful feeling about the world in general.Basic as well as associative meanings of this term existed at the early stage of its creation,and these meanings can still be perceived in various situations in modern Chinese,used in much more extensive way.To a large extent,it has become a rather peculiar sign of Chinese culture,held so firmly,dearly and lastingly by the Chinese people.The case of qing serves as a typical example that reflects how the Chinese perceive the world.展开更多
文摘In different languages and cultures, color terms usually indicate their specific cultural concepts and metaphorical implicature. This paper makes a typological study on the universality and relativity of the Conceptual Metaphors （CM） of color terms in different languages. It attempts to explore the cognitive differences and similarities in the process of categorization and metaphorization of color terms of oriental and western peoples. It proposes that the CM system of color terms is determined by the interactivity of three factors as neurophysiologic mechanisms, general cognitive psychological mechanisms and socio-cultural selective mechanisms. The CM of color terms in different languages carry their specific cognitive characteristics and cultural values, and reflect self-similarity of the language and culture.
文摘The vocabulary is the most active factor in the language, and the meaning of color words in the vocabulary is abundant. The nature is multicolored, so various nationalities have formed each unique color view in precipitated long-term history, refracting gorgeous national culture. Culture has restrained the meaning of the color words from developing, and the cultural meaning of the color words has refracted out abundant cultural intension again. Because of different cultural issues, cultural tradition, and culture psychology, the cultural connotations of the English and Chinese color words differ greatly, as a result, these particular cultural connotation meanings are cast under different environments by different nationalities. There are a lot of similarities and differences on the meaning between English and Chinese color words. This paper analyzing Chinese and English color terms in the angle of lexicology, is guided by the book An Introduction to English Lexicology. After reviewing the research done by some linguists, this paper starts from the definition and origin of color terms, studies the changing and word-formation of color terms, then ends with some researches on the idioms on color terms, which gives a systematically comparison of Chinese and English color terms on their developing progress.
基金financially supported by the National Social Science Fund Project(No.09BYY053)special project of Sichuan University central university basic scientific research business expense study(No.SKX201025)Sichuan University Social Science Project in 2008
文摘This article studies the new color terms in Chinese.It first classifies the color terms from four linguistic aspects:pronunciation,grammar,semantics,linguistic context and the theory of "Four Worlds," namel,language,physics,culture,and psychology.It then summarizes all the characteristics of the new color terms.The study takes questionnaires as supplementary data,explores and proves the interactive relationship between metaphorical expression and cognitive psychology of new color words.The life span of such new color terms is also discussed.
文摘We name colors of foods with great ease. This process is conventionalized through our cultures and our biological dictates. People identify food colors through words that are again highly constrained. Embodiment of experience and perception deals with these constraints to make color term use a cognitively economical mechanism, keeping numbers of concepts in mind through categorial conceptualization in long term memory. The parallel process that puts together our linguistic and visual information, allows the individual to map a correspondence between the two frames. The result of this mapping is a ＂cognitive color＂ in long term color memory. This paper presents an experiment in triggering long term memory and the response results. The objective was to verify whether individuals＇ cognitive color of well known foods, both raw and cooked, that they had just identified with Natural Color System （NCS） color samples, would be predominantly a primary basic color term, a secondary basic color term, or a complete descriptive utterance. The name used to communicate a desired signification is accessed through the judgement of similarity and difference with a point of reference. In this case, the food color vantage represents the cognitive color remembered.
文摘Studies of metaphor and color metaphor have always been a hot topic over the past decades, on which researches have been done a lot. However, the emotion metaphor of color sources has not been that popular. Therefore, from the viewpoint of conceptual metaphor theory, the author intends to conduct a comparative study of English and Chinese emotion metaphor in terms of basic color sources based on data from dictionaries, which is of theoretical and practical value.
文摘qing(青)is a very special and controversial color term in Chinese language and culture for the fact that it can refer to green,blue,or black depending on how it is used in collocation or context;it can be used as both a basic color term and mixed color term;in context it can be understood to refer to a certain color,but sometimes nobody can tell for sure what specific color it refers to;it can refer to color,but in more situations the understanding of it just goes beyond the perception of color,bringing about a vague but delightful feeling about the world in general.Basic as well as associative meanings of this term existed at the early stage of its creation,and these meanings can still be perceived in various situations in modern Chinese,used in much more extensive way.To a large extent,it has become a rather peculiar sign of Chinese culture,held so firmly,dearly and lastingly by the Chinese people.The case of qing serves as a typical example that reflects how the Chinese perceive the world.
