略论英语颜色词的社会文化意义

Brief Remarks on the Social and Cultural Connotation of English Color Words

英语中存在着大量的、丰富多彩的颜色词,这些颜色词不仅仅体现其基本感观上的视觉效果,更被赋予了深广的社会文化意义,被广泛应用于人们日常学习工作等社会生活各个方面。仅仅了解颜色词的概念义而忽视其社会文化意义的人还不能真正理解这些颜色词。因此我们需要注意颜色词的使用领域来帮助我们更好地理解颜色词的社会和文化意义。

English culture is hke a vast ocean. There exist a lot of color-related words in English. The color words in English embody the visual effect in the objective world, and people attach the colorful significance to them. In other words, these color words indicate certain social connotation and are related to specific cultures. People who know English color words but ignore their social and cultural connotation not be able to truly understand these color words. So we need to pay attention to the various fields where the color words are widely-used and to help us find the deeper understanding of the social and cultural connotation of them.