The Research Of Chinese Image Color Terms’ Structure And Function

Compared with other kinds of words, the Chinese image color words have more rationalmeanings as well as the obvious image color. Although the Chinese image color words onlybe a small proportion in modern Chinese Lexicology system, but it indeed plays a importantrole in actual language communication. First of all, the majority of Chinese image colorwords are compound words and having formal structure (also have other form), this structurereflects the basic meaning of those words and the reality way of language signal’s additionalmeaning. Second,human not only focus on the difference between image color words andother words, but also realizing the similarity and difference of meaning between image colorwords and normal words during the process of image color words categorization, then,connecting them by metaphors. For this reason, this article using theories of cognitivelinguistics uncovers the structure of modern Chinese image and color words, analysis therelationship from source scope to target scope of meaning generating process by metaphorsmethod and concludes the mapping discipline in terms categorization field. At last, this articlediscuss the function of image color words by pragmatics theories and has the conclusion thatthe image color meaning plays an important role of describing the meaning by words.TheChinese image color words can relate the semanteme to the intention of speaker throughcontext, and different natures of things to the features of image through referring expressions.Moreover, more important rhetorical functions can be found easily. In conclusion, from thedescription of specific language examples, we can see the close connection between languagehabit and general cognitive mechanism, which further reveal the regulation of the Chineseimage color words and impress the Chinese vocabulary structure and function on us with aleading meaning.