一、課題背景及意義 (課題的立題依據及研究意義)
research background:
a language not only expresses facts, ideas, or events which represent similar world knowledge by its people, but also reflects the people’s attitudes, beliefs, and world outlooks etc. people of different cultures structure the world around them differently, at least in the language they use to describe that world. languages differ enormously from one another, and these differences are related to important differences in the customs and behaviors and other aspects of the cultures in which those language reside. in a word, language is a mirror of culture.
when we learn a new word we tend to look for its meaning in the word itself. yet in addition to its dictionary meanings, the same word may stir up different associations in people, because of cultural differences. in our daily life, color words are the common illustrations of the cultural differences in language use. in chinese and english cultures, color words are in the same way influenced by cultures, and used widely in people’s daily life.
research significance:
as the differences between eastern and western cultures led to the understanding of the color words are not the same . color words contain a lot of deep meaning, implies a different ethnic feelings. if we do not take into account the impact of cultural differences, we are difficult to understand the implicit meaning of color words. the significance of this thesis is to enable a better understanding of color words, in order to enhance communication skills, avoid conflict of cultures.
二、課題研究現狀及發展趨勢 (課題研究領域的發展現狀及可能的發展方向)
research status:
study of color words has long attracted linguists’ attention. the bright lights of the objective world and for humankind as a whole are the same, but the national language or in different books of different ages or different geographical dialects often be found to have different understanding about color words. this concentrated and fully prove that language is the result of human cognition to understand and express the objective world, different groups of people in cognitive understanding and expression of the world, due to the different natural environment, social life, cultural traditions. study of color words in different languages between the similarities and differences. the same object can look at how the differences in cognitive terms showing similarities and differences between how the social and cultural differences and further expansion of the semantic differences, which for the cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics and culture, linguistics, and on second language teaching of applied linguistics has an important significance..
research tendency:
21st century’s color words study should stress the originality on research based on the achievements of the previous scholars, domestic or abroad. the study should keep track of the latest development of color words, making breakthrough, upgrading the research quality.