Author(s)

Yujie Su¹, Youngsoon Cho²

¹Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.
²Chonnam University, Gwangju, Korea.

Color is both a general concept which interrelates with other concepts and a category which encompasses various subcategories. Chinese and English are of different language systems which result in the potential differences in language cognition. The present research aims to reveal the differences and similarities of the same concept in different cultures like English and Chinese by comparing color as a concept and a category between English and Chinese on the basis of the Historical Thesaurus of Oxford English Dictionary.

HTOED, Color, Contrastive Study

Su, Y. and Cho, Y. (2020) An HTOED-Based Contrastive Study of the Color Concept between English and Chinese. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 8, 395-404. doi: 10.4236/jss.2020.87032.