BLACK COLOUR SYMBOLISM (BY THE MATERIAL OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Vlasova Ekaterina Anatol'evna
Orenburg State Pedagogical University
Abstract. The colour plays a vital role in the human life and finds its clear manifestation in symbolism. The paper examines the means to identify the black colour symbolism by allonyms and semantic markers; the author makes a comparison of using black colour as a symbol in the literary works of a special type of fiction - "fantasy" of the British and American authors.
Key words and phrases: цветообозначение, символика, черный цвет, англичане, американцы, аллонимы, семантические индикаторы, colour term, symbolism, black colour, the British, Americans, allonyms, semantic markers
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