TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Semantic Study of Color Metaphors in Kurdish and English: A
Contrastive Study
AU - Esmail Gharib, Hiba AU - Ismaeel Ghareb, Mazen 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 6
SP  - 1127
EP  - 1132
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2018.1127.1132
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.1127.1132
KW  - Color metaphor
KW  -proverbs
KW  -idioms
KW  -cognitive linguistics
KW  -Kurdish
KW  -English
AB  - The study under investigation is a contrastive study that concentrates on the metaphoric uses of
color terms in Kurdish and English with reference to proverbs and idioms in those two languages. The study
is conducted within the framework of cognitive linguistics and it adopts basically the revised model of in which
he deals metaphor as a cognitive cultural phenomenon. Color terms are used in many proverbs and idioms in
both languages and this study investigates the metaphoric-semantic background of the use of specific colors
in Kurdish and English and why languages vary and contrast in their uses of color metaphors. The differences
that are found in the two languages are attributed to the culture-specific nature of the color metaphors in those
languages. I propose that even the color terms in different languages refer to the same color in the real world
but the use of those color terms in different languages vary according to cultural, norms and uses of those
colors. I also propose that there will be some similarities in the use of the proverbs that have color terms due
to the universal norms.
ER  -