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Wang, Bin and Xuan Han. 2019. Color terms of English war poems from the perspective of cognitive grammar. Journal of Xi’an International Studies University 27 (3) : 23–27. 5 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Chinese
Place, Publisher
Xi’an International Studies University
ISBN
16739876

Abstract

Color images may add some colors to the black and white and contain rich meanings, being crucial carriers of poets' thoughts and feelings. On the basis of a self-built English war poem corpus, this article characterizes the metonymical and metaphorical phenomena concerning the grammatical aspects of the color terms. The findings are as follows: 1) color terms of different grammatical categories differ in nature and the mutual conversion of homonymy color terms is one side of color term metonymy; 2) color term metonymies existing in the English war poems realize through ways like entity to color, color to entity, color to human emotion and others; 3) color terms are used to refer to objective existence mainly through two metonymical mechanisms: the construction of DEFINITE ARTICLE+COLOR TERMS(1