COLOUR TERMS AS A MANIFESTATION OF CULTURAL AND NATIONAL SPECIFICS (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE)
Vorob'eva Elena Yur'evna
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Abstract. The article is devoted to one of the aspects of modern linguistics - colour terms as a manifestation of cultural and national specifics. The urgency of the subject is justified by the interest in the concept of "colour" which touches on the deeper layers of a human consciousness and is a manifestation of national mentality. The goal of the article is to show what colour images exist in the modern French language and how the colour terms participate in the formation of a linguistic picture of the world.
Key words and phrases: цветотермины, символическое значение, семантическая наполненность, коннотация, базовые цветовые термины, абстрактные цветообозначения, эмоциональная и стилистическая окрашенность, национальный склад мышления, colour terms, symbolic meaning, semantic value, connotation, basic colour terms, abstract colour terms, emotional and stylistic colouring, national way of thinking
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