This study has purpose to analyze the meanings of color expressions in the context of proverbs. The meanings of proverbs are not only the composition of the meanings of the component words, but also the independent meanings of the specific texts. So I used the theory of dénomination to analyze the meanings of color words in the context of proverbs. There are three grades in the semantic process of proverbs; 1) the word-meanings 2) collocational meanings 3) dénominational meanings. We must give attention to the words that co-occur with the color words and regard the meanings of the color words as the compositional meanings of the color words and the collocated(or co-occurred) words. I classified the proverbs by their color expressions and in this paper I tried to analyze and explain especially the chromatic color words. The work analyzing the color expressions in proverbs must include the evaluating meanings of the proverbs. The meanings of the color words are combined to the meanings of the collocated(or co-occurred) words and express the evaluation. The collocated(or co-occurred) words are mostly related with human life and the nature.

This study has purpose to analyze the meanings of color expressions in the context of proverbs. The meanings of proverbs are not only the composition of the meanings of the component words, but also the independent meanings of the specific texts. So I used the theory of dénomination to analyze the meanings of color words in the context of proverbs. There are three grades in the semantic process of proverbs; 1) the word-meanings 2) collocational meanings 3) dénominational meanings. We must give attention to the words that co-occur with the color words and regard the meanings of the color words as the compositional meanings of the color words and the collocated(or co-occurred) words. I classified the proverbs by their color expressions and in this paper I tried to analyze and explain especially the chromatic color words. The work analyzing the color expressions in proverbs must include the evaluating meanings of the proverbs. The meanings of the color words are combined to the meanings of the collocated(or co-occurred) words and express the evaluation. The collocated(or co-occurred) words are mostly related with human life and the nature.

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