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Color Semantics: Linguistic-Cultural Aspect

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Abstract

The color is of great importance in the life of modern man. The basic condition of communication considered background knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the realities and cultures who mutually enjoyed talking and listening. A comparative study of ways to describe colors in different languages is one of the traditional topics of Linguistics. This article discusses the phraseological units, containing in its semantics element color designations. On the material of the Kazakh attempts to uncover the meanings of some of the color names as an important phenomenon, capturing the essence of the language of the ethnic group.

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.20130101.15
Page(s) 34-37
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Keywords

Meanings and Symbols, World of Colors, Phraseological Units with Color Naming Components, National Psychology, Peculiarities of Mentality

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  • Karaganda State University named after academician E. A. Buketov, Karaganda, Kazakhstan

  • Karaganda State University named after academician E. A. Buketov, Karaganda, Kazakhstan

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