Chapter,One,Necessity,for,Comparative,Study,of,Color|for和of的用法

　　【中图分类号】G64 【文献标识码】A 【文章编号】2095-3089（2012）07-0092-02　　Color is an integral part of human language, as well as a reaction to the culture. We are living in a beautiful, wonderful and colorful world. There are the blue sky, white cloud, red sun， green grass, black earth , and grey buildings, etc around us， bright colorful pieces forming a picture. Color as the air, everywhere there are. Modern abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky pointed out in his “On the Art of Spirit” that “color directly affects the spirit”. If you have deep insights on life, you will agree with him: Hot red, a symbol of progressive and hope; chain of life the green, a reflection of youth and vigor; quiet blue with meaningful content and elegant; of course, there are white, black, yellow…
　　1.Definition of basic color terms
　　Basic color terms, as a part of the basic vocabulary, are very important to all nations and people. Although the study of color terms has long been an interest in many fields, each step in the study of color terms is closely linked to human civilization. The prosperity of natural science in the 17th century had propelled the study of color and color terms in physics and optics; the development of philosophy in the 18th century gave rise to the aesthetic study of color words; the rise of cultural study in the 19th century laid solid foundation for contrasting and comparing color terms from a cross￣cultural perspective; from the last century until now, the linguists’ participation made the notions of the universality of language principles highly valued and accepted in the system of color terms. In the recent thirty years, with the development of neurology, biogenetics, cognitive science and cognitive psychology, people are unveiling the complicated relationship in the color terms’ system, which contributes to better understanding of the internal and external systems of color words and to further the study of linguistic study of color terms.
　　At the end of the 1960s two American scholars—ethnologist Brent Berlin and Paul Kay hand in hand cooperated in the world’s nearly 100 kinds of languages phrases which represent color, and published half a century color words in the research of the most influential masterpiece( Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, 1969). Berlin and Kay think that there exist eleven basic color terms in English. There are “white”,“ black”, “red”, “green”, “yellow”, “blue”, “brown”, “purple”, “pink”, “orange” and “grey”.