毕业论文：英汉颜色词汇的象征意义和翻译对比研究

毕业论文：英汉颜色词汇的象征意义和翻译对比研究

A CONTRASTIVE STUDY ON SYMBOLIC MEANINGS AND
TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE COLOR WORDS

By
Wu *ianghua
June .2012

Acknowledgements

In the preparation and writing this thesis, I am deeply indebted to many people and I would like to avail myself of this opportunity to e*press my heart-felt gratitude to all those who have offered me guidance and help.
First and foremost, substantial acknowledgements are made to Professor Liu Ruiqiong, who, as my tutor, has offered me valuable suggestions and opinions to my outline organization and thesis writing. As a prestigious professor, Ms.Shi is patient and ready to answer any problems both in English studying and in life. Thanks to her guidance and warm help, I have greatly widened my knowledge and set up a more optimistic philosophy during the past three years.
My thanks also go to all those dedicated teachers and professors at Changsha Vocational＆Technical College who have spared no effort to enrich my knowledge. Without their dedication to the education, I wouldn’t have made any achievement and improved myself during these years.
Last but not least, I would like to give my deep and
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tics. So some colors even become adorable to people, but some become taboos. In today’s multi-cultural society, translation, as an important device in the cross-cultural communication, is a mode of cultural transfer. It is significant to understand and grasp color words and their functions in the cultural transfer. This paper tries to make a contrastive study of color words from some major differences by comparison and analysis of them .

Key words: comparison, color words, symbolic meaning, translation





摘 要

英汉语言中表示各种不同颜色或色彩的词极为丰富。颜色与人类生活息息相关。毫无疑问，颜色词被广泛应用于人类语言中，并且赋予了丰富的感情和文化内涵。我们不仅要注意它最基本的含义，还得注意它更为广泛和深层的象征义，由于受各自语言文化习惯，历史文化背景和传统习俗等因素的影响，在不同文化中象征义也不尽相同，与之相反的是有它们自己的特点。因此，有些颜色甚至构成了人们对他它的崇尚和禁忌.在多元文化的今天，翻译作为跨文化交流的一种重要手段，是文化转换的一种模式，了解和掌握颜色词极其在文化转换中的作用具有极为重要的意义。本文通过对中英文文化以上方面进行对比分析，试图从一些主要不同方面进行对颜色词的分析研究。

关键词：对比，颜色词，象征意义，翻译










Introduction

Vocabulary plays an important role in human language, while color words belong to it. It can directly reflect the social changes and cultural development, so can color words. Color is a part of our life. It is closely related to people’s life and e*ists everywhere. Both Chinese and English are rich in words which are used to e*press different kinds of colors. So we should pay much attention to these words not only their own original and basic meanings but also their deeper and wide-ranging symbolic meanings. Without understanding of them, we will probably run into obstacles or make fun of ourselves in communication. In today’s multi-cultural society, the symbolic meanings of color words embody lots of cultural values and connotations in cross-cultural communication. And color words are endowed with various emotions and connotations in different nations, namely, people in different cultures between China and English countries hold different attitudes toward the same color for different language habits, historical backgrounds and traditional customs and so on. Therefore we must learn well about the cultural connotations and the symbolic meanings of color words before learning the nations language.




Chapter 1
Introduction of Color Words and Their Historical Backgrounds

1.1 Definition of Color words
Scientifically, color is a visual phenomenon launched, reflected or caused through certain light wave by the object. Meanwhile, there is another sayings that "color words" indicate the word which is used to stand for a kind of color. As we all know, in whatever languages, color words are used for describing different things. However, the color words reflect the different cultural connotations in different languages, but the similarity is that as a part of words, color words are used in writing to transmit information. Actually, color words are words which simply show different colors. Like the onomatopoeic word, a color word has little merit in itself. Only when it suggests the image of the original, or fortifies the sense in the version, it has value in translation”(*iao Junshi, P173, 1982).We should know that the symbolic meaning are wholly different in different cultures, history, background, aesthetic and psychology because of the countrys geography.

1.2 Historical Backgrounds of Color words Both in English and Chinese Cultures
In Western cultures, people regard and deal with things rationally at the very beginning and can easily accepted the color for its fast development of education and science. And the symbolic meanings of the color words are very direct in Western culture for they often display the basic meaning of color words to the objective world. We can know it from the western literature that the oldest theory in color words history is Aristotles Black and White Theory, in which color is made up of hue, luminosity and saturation. At that period, all colors were thought as different degrees of mi* of white and black. Nevertheless, Black and White Theory ……（未完，全文共29318字，当前仅显示5273字，请阅读下面提示信息。收藏《毕业论文：英汉颜色词汇的象征意义和翻译对比研究》）