The Category of Colour Naming in English, German and Mari Idioms

Yakovleva, Svetlana L.; Fliginskikh, Ekaterina E.; Kazyro, Galina N.; Pershina, Marina A.; Soldatkina, Tatyana A.

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s7p33

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“…The problem studied in the article is relevant and important for the Russian and foreign scientific community since colorful Hebrew idioms have not yet been described against the background of numerous similar studies in other languages. Thus, the English BLIS was thoroughly analyzed in the review article [Chielens 2006;Hamilton 2016;Knodel 2019] and comparative works on BLIS in different languages: Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian, and Russian [Gadänyi 2007, Talapina 2008, Zavialova, 2011, German [Groß 2014], Spanish [Plaza 2015]; Chinese [He 2011]; Mari [Yakovleva et al, 2015]; Kurdish [Kareem 2019]; Kyrgyz [Samatov 2017]; English, Russian and Hebrew color idioms [Kigel, 2021a[Kigel, , 2021b[Kigel, , 2022a[Kigel, , 2022b[Kigel, , 2022c.…”

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Contrastive Analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew “Black” Idioms

Kigel¹

2022

Вест.ПГУ.Филол.

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The work aims to collect and analyze English, Russian, and Hebrew idioms with the lexeme black/черный/שחור (hereinafter – BLIS). It is the first study implementing the collection of Hebrew idioms and the comparison of these three languages as the subject of scientific research. The article proposes a systematization of BLIS based on microsystems consisting of meaning associative chains with logically and semantically related meanings. The material under study comprises about 440 idioms (including about 180 English, 160 Russian, and 100 Hebrew idioms) collected from trilingual electronic lexical, phraseological sources, and Internet searches. The study used qualitative and quantitative contextual-functional, semantic, and cultural-linguistic analyses within the lingua culturological approach. After compiling lists of idioms, identifying their meanings, and comparing them, the author created a table with groups of equivalent and unique BLIS. The microsystem of equivalent BLIS consists of three groups of associative chains: 1. The optical color of the object. 1.1. Nature. Natural phenomena, physical objects – Resources; Flora – Fauna; Body – Skin color. 1.2. Human activity. Etalon color – Black and white image; Clothing: Official – Mourning – Military; Food, beverages; Medicine – Drugs; Board games – Competition – Sports; Hybrid war: Disinformation – Secret operations; Economy – Profit – Employment; Vote; Computers, devices; Typography; Art: Literature – Music – Morbid Humor. 1.3. Intellectual, mental, and moral problems. Clarity – intellectual activity; Unpredictable event – Exception; Prohibition versus permission; Unsuccessful, Difficult – Depression, Pessimism; Ruinous – Illegal; Magic. The proposed classification covers physical, mental characteristics, and a large number of human activity areas, and allows the inclusion of new BLIS in the future. These results can be effectively used in L2 teaching, in human and especially in automatic translation. The described equivalent metaphors prove the common features in the linguocultural picture of the world, and unique BLIS complement this picture, which is important for intercultural communication and automatic translation of idioms.

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Contrastive Analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew “Black” Idioms

Kigel¹

2022

Вест.ПГУ.Филол.

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Contrastive Analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew Red Idioms

Kigel¹

2021

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The paper studied 130 colorative idioms with colorative red (RI) in three languages from electronic sources, with a focus on current vocabulary from the 20th and 21st centuries. RIs numerous meanings were investigated, then merged into trilingual associative chains, and finally into seven microsystems, using statistical, comparative, linguistic, and linguistic-cultural analysis methods within the framework of the linguocultural approach to RI: Blood color-activity-disease-medical care-shame-irritation - anger - aggression - crime - murder; Fire - attractiveness; Danger - prohibition – border- red-green; Revolution - anarchism-communism; Prestige- holiday; Sex; Red object's color. We also found trilingual extra-associative RIs, which have meanings not found in the associative chains. The study examined RI quantitatively, identifying trilingual equivalent and lacunar idioms, linked between RI and red in nature, noting the formation of new RI meanings and connotation changes in three languages through time. Polysemy, antinomy with different hues (green, black, white, and blue), international neologisms (computer technology, the stock market, the coronavirus pandemic), and the relevance of RI in modern languages and linguistic culture were the topics covered in this research.

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Contrastive analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew idioms with lexeme “grey”

Kigel¹

2022

Linguistics & Polyglot Studies

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According to the article's aim to study English, Russian, and Hebrew idioms with the lexeme grey-gray / серый / (GRIS), a number of equivalents, original and unique GRIS were explored, the presented meanings of GRIS were organized into associative chains, then in microsystems, and the similarities and differences of trilingual GRIS were singled out. In the investigation, an extensive review of scientific literature in English and Russian was made and methods of qualitative-quantitative, semantic, and cultural-linguistic analysis in the framework of cognitive linguistics, color linguistics, and modern phraseology were used. The study consists of two main sections: Equivalent Grey Idioms (A. Optical color of natural objects and artificial objects; B. Mental and ethical problems) and Original, Unique GRIS. The quantitative and qualitative GRIS analysis convincingly proves an extensive basis for communication of multisystem linguistic and cultural groups, the intensity of interethnic communication in the 21st century, as well as the contribution of unique GRIS to the world linguistic culture. Optically grey color is between black and white, and, accordingly, GRIS are intermediate between black and white idioms, but are closer to black idioms. The article deals with the lexical-semantic polysemy of GRIS, and the metaphor "grey zone" that describes something intermediate, new, controversial, vague, not yet classified and regulated, and is intensively used in the 21 st century in technology, computer science, economics, trade, law, social work, medicine, morality, literature, and diplomacy. The work results will help in educational and translation practice, compiling dictionaries, and creating a base for automatic translation of phraseological units. The research also contributes to intercultural communication, psycholinguistics, cultural studies, cognitive and comparative linguistics.

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The Category of Colour Naming in English, German and Mari Idioms

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Contrastive Analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew “Black” Idioms

Contrastive Analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew “Black” Idioms

Contrastive Analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew Red Idioms

Contrastive analysis of English, Russian, and Hebrew idioms with lexeme “grey”

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