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A Comparison of the Cultural Connotation of Chinese and Western Colour Words as Well as the Analysis of the Forming Causes
Volume 21, Issue 10, Part 2, 2025
Authors

Jingguang Li

Corresponding Author

Jingguang Li

Publishing Date

November 28, 2025

Keywords

Comparison, Cultural connotation, Colour Words, Chinese, Western words.

Abstract

In the recent decades, as a very important part of the research on the intercultural communication, the cultural connotation of Chinese and Western colour words has drawn more and more attention from most college English teachers and cultural scholars. Lots of academic thesis or research reports have been published one after another. On basis of collecting or referring to the research results of the predecessors and the colleagues, selecting the main colour words from Chinese and Western culture including red, yellow, white, green, black and so on, the thesis has made a detail comparison on the differences between the above colour words, then an elaborate analysis has been made on the forming causes of the differences in the cultural connotation between Chinese and Western colour words in order to provide the coming researchers with some conducive suggestions or references, pushing forward the development of the relevant research and the whole research of the intercultural communication.

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© 2025, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC

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