A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Semantic Prosody of Basic Color Word in English and Chinese

摘要

Semantic prosody is a kind of abnormal collocation in nature, and has been attached great importance to the definition and classification by researchers home and abroad. Based on data from BNC and LCMC, this paper tries to find the differences of basic color word in their lexical collocation and semantic prosody between English and Chinese. With the aid of Wordsmith Tools 5.0, the paper examines the semantic prosody of the English color word Black and its Chinese equivalent in the concordancing lines. The results indicate that there are similarities reflected by color words meaning system of objective world in English and Chinese.