Cultural-Differences-of-Color-Words-in-Chinese-and-English--中英文颜色词的文化差异.doc

Research Proposal

ⅠTitle of the thesis
Cultural Differences of Color Words in Chinese and English中英文颜色词的文化差异
Ⅱ Literature review
Different cultures have different ways of presenting points of view and of drawing conclusions. The western ways of presenting argumentative cases and drawing conclusions is generally characterized by precision, clarity, directness, explicitness, and detailedness. In contrast, Chinese approach is more associated with vagueness, ambiguity, stories instead of facts, indirect arguments, being reserved and sensitive to situations or contexts. Different patterns of thinking also determine different ways of behaving, saying things, presenting their arguments, and drawing their conclusions. In other words, we now know that what is considered knowledge or logical thinking may vary greatly across cultures.
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.
Here in my thesis, I mainly focus on some color words both in Chinese and English. We know there are many conspicuous contrasts between the two languages, so the color words are. Scholars have explored them for hundreds of years. I am interested in this subject either. I write this paper based on the research of those great persons and roughly explore the cultural and linguistic gap between the two languages concerned.
The scientific research shows that there are as many as two million kinds of identified colors in the world. Both Chinese and English have a great quantity of different words to depict colors. They are similarly classified in general. But due to different cultures, differences exist undoubtedly in the two languages. In this paper, I will express my thoughts from following aspects: different customs, histories, religions and literatures of the two languages, the developments of the two languages in the following future and so on.
In conclusion, the different uses of color words in Chinese and English are tightly connected with the different cultures of the two languages.
Ⅲ Key points
Culture: It is a complex collection of experiences which condition daily life; it includes history, social structure, religion, traditional customs and everyday usage. Culture is an evasive as well as a comprehensive concept, and an all-encompassing form or pattern for living. What people do, how they act, and how they live and communicate are all responses to their culture. Since we human beings live in the same material world, people all over it do have a great number of things in common. That makes our communication possible with people from various cultures.
Language; Since culture is defined as “the total way of life of a people”, nothing is of greater importance than the language through which its beliefs are expressed and transmitted and by which most interactions of its members take place. In fact, language plays such a vital role in culture that some social scientists consider it the keystone of culture. Without language, they maintain, culture would not be possible.
Relationship between Culture, Language, and Translation: My topic of this thesis is the contrasts of color words in two languages: Chinese and English. That will inevitably connect the different translations of the two languages together. Therefore, the relationship between culture, language, and translation is crucial part of this paper.
The relationship between language and culture is dialectical. The intimate relationship between language and culture leads naturally to that between culture and translation. Translation is representation in one language of what is written or said in another language. It’s a bilingual art because two different languages are involved in this activity.
Color words: 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. Color words contain a lot of deep meanings, and imply different ethnic feelings. If we do not take into account the impact of cultural differences, we are difficult to understand the implicit meanings of color words.
Ⅳ Outline
Introduction
1、 Relationship between cultural differences and color words in Chinese and English
1.1 Influences of traditional customs in color words
1.2 Historical factors
1.3 Different favors of different ethnics
1.4 Religious influences
1.5 Literal allusions
2、 Specific contrasts of several color words in Chinese and English
2.1 Red in Chinese and English
2.2 Black in Chinese and English
2.3 White in Chinese and English
2.4 Blue and Green in Chinese and English
3、 Trends of development in use of color words
3.1 Economic developments
3.2 Social life developments
3.3 Intercultural developments
Conclusion
Ⅴ Bibliography
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Ⅵ Schedule of writing
1. Sep.10th —Sep.15th, 2010 Subject selecting & topic narrowing
2. Oct.3rd — Nov.29th, 2010 Data gathering
3. Dec.1st — Jan.1st. 2011 Opening report
4. Jan.7th —. Jan.25th. 2011 Research proposal & Literature review
5. Jan.29th — Feb .25th. 2011 First draft
6. Feb.29th — Mar.15 nd. 2011 Second draft
7. Mar.16th — Apr.1st. 2011 Final version
8. Apr.3rd —Apr.15th. 2011 Printing
9. Apr.26th —Apr.30th.2011 Thesis debate

The Cultural Differences of Color Words in Chinese and English
中英文颜色词的文化差异

Submitted by Student number 0705020308
Supervised by Qiu Shichun

Foreign Languages College
Jiangxi Normal University
February, 2011

The Cultural Differences of Color Words in Chinese and English

Abstract: Colors are closely connected to human life. To some extent, there wouldn’t be colorful life without various colors of nature. Color is a vital region for human to probe into the material world. It has not only physical natures but also rich cultural connotations. Because of different customs, environments, religious beliefs, ethnic psychology, politics and economics, the understanding and feelings to color words and meaning are different. Therefore, in translating these words about color, cultural differences are to be taken into consideration.
Nowadays, languages develop quickly as the society and economy flourish. In some situations such as in current science and economics, color words in Chinese and English may be equal.

Key words: color words, cultural differences, development

中英文颜色词的文化差异

摘要：色彩与人类的生活息息相关，就某种程度来说，没有五光十色的色彩，就没有多姿多彩的生活。色彩是人类认识世界的重要领域，它不仅具有物理的本质属性，还有着丰富的文化内涵。因为文化习俗，地理环境，宗教信仰，民族心里， 政治经济的不同，对颜色词的理解和感受，颜色词的意义都有很大不同。因此，在翻译关于颜色的词汇时，必须把文化差异这一因素考虑进去。
当下的社会经济繁荣，语言也发展迅速。在当代科技经济等方面，中英文颜色词有时是可以等同于彼此的。

关键字：文化差异；颜色词；发展

Contents

Abstract ……………………………………………………………………………… i
摘 要 ……………………………………………………………………………… i i
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….. 1
1. Cultural differences and color words in Chinese and English………………… 2
1.1 Traditional customs ……………………………………………………………… 2
1.2 Religious beliefs ………………………………………………………………….. 3
1.3 Literal allusions of color words ………………………………………………… 5
1.4 Ethnic favors …………………………………………………………………….. 6
2. Specific contrasts of color words in Chinese and English .……………………. 8
3. Current development of color words …………………………………………… 8
4. Possible Solutions to the difficulties …………………………………………….. 8
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Notes ………………………………………………………………………………… 11
Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………… 12
Acknowledgement …………………………………………………………………... 13
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