THE SPECIFICITY OF BORROWING OF COLOUR DENOTATIONS "BLACK" IN THE KOREAN AND JAPANESE LANGUAGES
Dubrovskaya Tat'yana Vladimirovna
Far Eastern Federal University
Abstract. The problem of colour denotations perception is considered by scientists in different linguistic directions. From ancient times special perception of colour has been formed in Japan and Korea. Borrowing is an integral part of the process of functioning and the historical change of a language, one of the main sources of vocabulary enlargement. The article considers the questions of the formation of the lexical system in the Korean and Japanese languages by the example of colour denotations borrowing.
Key words and phrases: цветообозначения, японский язык, заимствование цветообозначений, корейский язык, черный цвет, colour denotations, the Japanese language, colour denotations borrowing, the Korean language, black colour
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