General studies of colors in Chinese and English

• Main Authors: Yang-hsin Feng, 馮雅欣
• Other Authors: Szu-I Sylvia Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07804462768849683286

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用外語學系碩士班 === 101 === In this paper, I talk about red, yellow, blue; and green, purple, black and white as well. Every color in various races implies various meanings. We apply colors into our daily life, cultures, language instruction. It does also exist more discrepancy in meanings. Cultural differences are influential more on the color connotations in Chinese and Western. In our daily life, colors play a primordial role in our life. Five major colors are represented Chinese in Feng Shui and the four major colors are replaced in English. We will examine the color terms in five of the Grimm Tales. The colorful color is not only bringing children abounding imagination, innovation, and full of entertainments. Colors can enrich Grimm tales vivid memories for children for life. Colors can reveal identify in customs in various occasion. Colors in various lexical representations can be interpreted semantics in denotation and connotation. And if we make the colors can be applied in English instruction.