Philosophy of Red Color: Lingual and Extralingual Aspects
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https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v15i2.342Keywords:
psycholinguistics, perception, color name, lingual, extra lingual, idiom, phraseological unitAbstract
This article analyses various lingual and extra lingual researches on a red color, comparing the symbolic meanings of color, which used to be and still are specific for different cultural communities. The objective of the article is to identify peculiarities in the interpretation of red color in the subjective world of sensation and the objective world of fact and to provide the full study of this color perception and categorization based on phraseology.
Color lexis (including English phraseology) is a multidimensional phenomenon. It accumulates in itself the significant experience of society and the numerous stages of world knowledge by man. Having arisen at a certain stage of the development of the language system, color names at a conceptual level demonstrate a vivid example of a change in the process of cognition of the world by a person, confirms the thesis about the need for multi interval thinking, which allows one to observe any object from different cognitive positions.
The main conclusion of the article is that the study of the relations between lingual and extra lingual meanings of color in the semantics of idioms is the most important task of anthropocentric phraseology because in language are fixed and phraseologized precisely those figurative expressions that are associated with cultural and national standards, stereotypes, mythologisms for a certain community mentality, which serves as its spiritual equipment, psychological tool.
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