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The Comparative Study of Color Metaphors in English and Chinese

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With the development of human civilization, the significance of the color terms gradually emerges in our daily life and the unique charm which the color terms express and display, makes us regard them with special esteem. Color terms not only have the literal meanings, describing the things in nature, they also have the extended or metaphorical meanings, expressing dif erent and complex human emotions as well as the characteristic of the changing matters. This paper tries to give a comparative study of some basic color metaphors in English and Chinese as I discover that though color metaphors used in different languages have something in common they also have the difference, which deserves our further study.

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蔡琦

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南京师范大学教师教育学院,江苏 南京 210046

2014

西江月
广西梧州市文学艺术界联合会

西江月

ISSN:1003-2819
年,卷(期):2014.(12)
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