谈英语实物颜色词的分类及其修辞功能

On the Classification and Rhetorical Functions of English Object Colour Terms

颜色词是用来描述物体的色调、亮度和饱和度等色彩属性的词语,是人类感知色彩、使之范畴化并用自然语言进行编码的结果,它是人类语言中一个相对独立且动态发展的词汇系统。英语颜色词有基本颜色词与非基本颜色词之分。非基本颜色词中包含实物颜色词。实物颜色词在色彩描述上具有多样性和精确性等特点。正确理解和准确把握这类特殊颜色词的文化含义与修辞功能,巧妙运用这类特殊颜色词,对有效进行英汉翻译、顺利开展跨文化交际以及全面提高英语阅读和写作能力大有帮助。

Colour terms, which are used to describe the colour properties as tone, brightness and saturation of the things in discussion, resulting from human＇s perceiving, categorizing and encoding colours with natural languages, fall into the lexical system which is comparatively independent and developing dynamically in human languages. English colour terms comprise Basic Colour Terms and Non - basic Colour Terms. This article mainly deals with the classification and rhetorical functions of Object Colour Terms, belonging to Non - basic Colour Terms, and looks humbly at the diversity and exactness of these terms in colour expression.