| ENGLISH ABSTRACT | 第3页 |
| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第4-5页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第6-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第8-11页 |
| 1.1 Aims of the Study | 第8页 |
| 1.2 The Definition of Basic Color Terms | 第8-9页 |
| 1.3 Data and Methodology | 第9-10页 |
| 1.4 Scope of the Study | 第10页 |
| 1.5 Organization of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL FOUNDATION | 第11-26页 |
| 2.1 Traditional Approaches and Problems | 第12-15页 |
| 2.1.1 The Objectivist Theories of Meaning | 第12-13页 |
| 2.1.2 Historical Background of Polysemy | 第13-15页 |
| 2.2 Cognitively Oriented Work in Semantics | 第15-20页 |
| 2.2.1 The Experientialist Alternative: Giving New Meaning to the Objectivism | 第15-16页 |
| 2.2.2 Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics | 第16-20页 |
| 2.3 Literature Review: Aspects of Studies in Color Lexicons | 第20-26页 |
| 2.3.1 The Conceptualization of Color Words: From Color Perception to Color Categorization | 第20-22页 |
| 2.3.2 Color Categorization: Controversy between Relativism and Universalism | 第22-24页 |
| 2.3.3 Co-existing System of Linguistic Relativism and Linguistic Universalism along with Cognitive Standpoint | 第24-26页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SIX BASIC COLOR TERMS IN CHINESE | 第26-69页 |
| 3.1 The Properties of the Six Basic Color Categories in Chinese | 第27-30页 |
| 3.2 Data Analysis | 第30-64页 |
| 3.2.1 Hei (黑 'BLACK') | 第30-36页 |
| 3.2.2 Bai (白 'WHITE') | 第36-42页 |
| 3.2.3 Hong (红 'RED') | 第42-49页 |
| 3.2.4 Huang (黄 'YELLOW') | 第49-55页 |
| 3.2.5 Lu/Qing (绿/青 'GREEN') | 第55-60页 |
| 3.2.6 Lan/Qing (蓝/青 'BLUE') | 第60-63页 |
| 3.2.7 Qing (青 'GREEN/BLUE/BLACK') | 第63-64页 |
| 3.3 General Discussion | 第64-69页 |
| 3.3.1 The Contradictory Senses of One and the Same Color Words | 第64-65页 |
| 3.3.2 The Opposite Semantic Relations between Different Color Words | 第65-67页 |
| 3.3.3 The Productivity of Metaphorical Usage for Colors on the Left of the Hierarchy | 第67-68页 |
| 3.3.4 Are the Extensional Uses of Color words Cross-linguistic or Language-specific? | 第68-69页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR: CONCLUSION | 第69-72页 |
| SOURCES OF DATA | 第72-73页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第73-75页 |
