Title: A Contrastive Rehtorical Study of Color Terms in English and Chinese
Abstract: Color terms play a very important part in a nations language. They have an essential rhetorical function, reflect the traditional culture of a nation and manifest the cognitive process of the language users. This paper first reviews the related literature, including the studies of color cognition and rhetoric, analyzes contrastively the rhetorical features of color terms in both Chinese and English, and then explores the similarities and differences in the use of color terms across the languages and the factors related.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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