颜色词的认知研究

Cognitive study of color terms

颜色词是极其活跃的词,是语言中词汇的重要组成部分。从认知范畴的模糊性出发,阐释颜色词的模糊性,并通过对隐喻和转喻两种重要认知模式的论述,展现颜色词多义现象产生的根源,最后指出颜色作为基本范畴,借助这两种认知模式发展了众多的引申意义,从认知语言学的观点探讨颜色词更容易使人理解其内涵。

Color terms as an important part of vocabulary are very active in language. From the perspective of the fuzziness of cognitive category, the paper analyzed the fuzziness of color terms. Meanwhile metaphor and metonymy, as two important cognitive modes, were discussed so as to display the source of the multiple meaning of color terms. Finally, it pointed out that color as a basic category produced many extended uses by metaphor and metonymy, and a cognitive study of color terms could make their connotations easier to understand.