英语开题报告

研究内容及研究目标 (对研究的内容进行说明,并阐明要达到的目标)

research contents:

a. cultural connotations of black and reflections in idioms

tive connotations and their reflections in idioms

1.1 black is associated with the solemn and the dignified

1.2 black is associated with profit

1.3 black is associated with the black people

2. negative connotations and their reflections in idioms

2.1 black is associated with the death

2.2 black is associated with the evil and unfortunate

2.3 black is associated with the shame and disgraceful

2.4 black is associated with anger

b. cultural connotations of white and reflections in idioms

1. positive connotations and their reflections in idioms

1.1 white is associated with the pure and lucky

1.2 white is associated with integrity and honesty

2. negative connotations and reflections in idioms

2.1 white is associated with death and poor

2.2 white is associated with worthless and timid

c. cultural connotations of red and reflections in idioms

1. positive connotations and their reflections in idioms

1.1 red is associated with honor and love

2. negative connotations and their reflections in idioms

2.1 red is associated with the obscenity

2.2 red is associated with revolution and socialism.

2.3 red is associated with danger and loss

d. cultural connotations of yellow and reflections in idioms

tive connotations and their reflections in idioms

1.1 yellow is associated with the noble

1.2 yellow is associated with the joy and missing

2. negative connotations and their reflections in idioms

2.1 yellow is associated with the vulgar and exaggerative

2.2 yellow is associated with the coward and disease

research objectives:

i write this thesis in order to make english learners have a better understanding of the cultural meaning of color words and enhance communication skills, avoid conflict in western culture.

预计的研究难点 (课题研究过程中可能遇到的理论难题或技术难点)

with the changing society, people have a view of things may have diametrically opposite point of view, how is the color of the word has become more authoritative to be a problem; how to get people to attach importance to the implied meaning of color words which may lead to cultural conflict is also a problem. as the color words in real life, the widely used, it is difficult in a paper summarizing, so how to form the color words of the formation of an effective system is a difficult. possible problems also contain: (1) limited availability of helpful data, especially the books or articles written by the native scholars; (2) difficulty in the presentation of insightful ideas and the attainment in originality due to lack of the knowledge related.