Article
ANALYSIS ON THE CULTURE MEANINGS OF INDONESIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES FOR COLOR WORDS
ETNOREFLIKA : Jurnal Sosial dan Budaya, Vol. 11 No. 3 (2023), hlm. 340–351
Abstrak
Indonesian and Chinese words for colors have a relation of cultural and social meanings. The cultural meaning of color words reflects the social concept of a word’s meaning. Cultural linguistic explores the relation between language and culture. What is the relation between color words and culture? How to explore the national culture meaning through the comparative study of color words? Based on first Chinese dictionary (SHUOWEN JIEZI), A Thesaurus of Modern Chinese (TMC) and Tesamoko Tesaurus Bahasa Indonesia(Tesamoko) and related sources, this paper analyzes and discusses the cultural meaning, development, naming, evolution of color words and object references of color words.