A COMPARISON ON CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION OF RED AND ĐỎ COLOR TERMS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE DATA

Abstract

This study is to make a comparison and contrast between the categories of red and đỏ color terms in English and Vietnamese data from a semantic-cognitive perspective. Mixed and contrastive method is used in this study to investigate and to describe the categories of these color terms in two languages. The data were on 55 examples containing red colour term in English data and 106 examples containing đỏ color term taken from literary works. Further divided according to the 06-category classification of Flora, Fauna, Inanimate nature, Food and beverage, Man-made object, Body and bodily product, the findings show that 06 categories of red color term in English data and those of đỏ color term in Vietnamese data have been identified. Hopefully, the results of this study can help English and Vietnamese use these 06 categories effectively in daily conversation.