柳永词中的颜色词——以“红”与“翠”为例

Color Words in Classical Poetry of Liu Yong

在中国古典诗词中,颜色词被运用得可谓出神入化。不但是表现颜色的词语纷繁复杂,而且还产生了许多由颜色引申或比喻转而表达隐喻含意的含彩词。柳永词是宋代词作中不容忽视的突出代表之一,其中颜色词语的使用极为丰富。从认知语义学视角出发,对其中颜色词的语义内涵和使用特点进行分析和解释,一方面有助于理解汉语颜色词在使用中的隐喻机制和文化基础,另一方面期望能对理解颜色词在柳永词中的文化符码作用提供一些语言上的实例。

Color is natural phenomena perse, yet in most cases people usually use their languages to express the color notion. Different people have different color terms and the color words system of a particular language also have much to do with its＂ particular society and culture. Therefore, a research on color terms of a language is not only interesting but al- so necessary. This paper takes the classical poetry of Liu Yong as its basic material and the color words ＂hong（red）＂ and ＂cui（green） ＂ as its main objects of study. It classified and analyzed the category of the cognitive inferential methods from the color words to the emergent meanings, and also summarized the semantic characteristics of the color words as mor- pheme.